We don't solve the problem of parenthood by shirking the job off to Big Brother.

Many pro-aborts insist that "if it were truly about the life of the babies, then all the costs of bearing babies—health care, diapers, formula, education, day care—would be free." -As if life could be somehow justified only by making it burden-free.

Quite the contrary; if it were about babies, we'd begin with the glaringly obvious truth that the best thing for babies is a set of parents who are capable of providing and nurturing them without needing to slip into the trap/the hell of the dependent underclass of people who feel entitled to demand that government pay for all the things for which the parents themselves ought to be responsible.

Regardless, we must realize that the main problem—good parenting—isn’t going to be solved merely by outlawing abortion. Our markedly deficient capacity for responsible citizenship/parenthood is among the main drivers for our rampant abortion rates in the first place. It seems to me that we must take a multi-pronged approach to future solutions.

First, we must do all we can to reinforce the idea that adoption is the most selfless choice an unexpected mother can make. If we can grow the social consensus that it is transcendently noble and redeeming to correct a sin by giving a child up for adoption to a loving, two-parent home, we’ll make huge strides toward ensuring that kids that would have been murdered in the abortionists’ chairs will instead thrive in this magnificent world of imagination and opportunity—particularly here in America where our health care is endowed by unfathomable amounts of private charity.

Secondly, we must seize the opportunity here to build something that acts as a wedge between society and government. It will be easy for many to say that we must now fund something that is the pro-life equivalent to Planned Parenthood’s pro-choice alternative. Yes, we must construct institutions that will lovingly welcome the women which would have previously just gotten an abortion and show them how to honorably conduct themselves for nine months so that they won’t suffer a lifetime of crippling remorse. Government institutions, never forget, cannot pinpoint sin and address it as sin. Government—with all its tremendous financial resources—cannot truly minister to the poverty of the spirit. Yet we have become accustomed to shirking the voluntary social community’s responsibility off onto the government. We think, “let the government solve this problem” and we flatter ourselves into thinking we have good hearts because we vote for politicians that will spend a greater share of the taxpayers’ money on government-approved charity.

Gresham’s Law applies here: Bad charity drives out good charity. We need to work hard to institute, reinforce and entrench the good voluntary intermediary organizations that will do a vastly better job of truly helping this marginal sector of our population than ever could a government department of bureaucrats dispensing indiscriminate ‘aid’.

Thirdly, (and I am not sure how this complies with my catholic faith) what we should have been insisting all along is that abortion is not birth control. However, until we can lift people out of the lowliest, most barbaric sexual behavior, we ought to be emphasizing that simple, proper birth control will prevent most all of the desired need for abortion anyhow and does far less damage to the soul than the horrific trauma of abortion.