More On The Unintended Consequences of Banning Abortion

My wife and I were talking about the fight to ban abortions in the US, and she raised some more good points:

• When abortion is banned, how are the people going to handle the spate of women who try to force themselves to have miscarriages because they don't want the baby?
• When abortion is outlawed, how will the states handle the growth in the number of children in the state foster care system? We already can't find enough parents for the kids that exist now. And the State foster care systems are running out of money, replete with corruption, and terrible things keep happening to kids in foster care.
• By definition, a child that a woman wanted to abort was an unwanted child. What will hapen to these unwanted children? Will there be a rise in abuse cases? Will there be more neglected children? Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics would believe so. Doing a statistical analysis of crime rates and abortion rates he tried to show that crime has been dropping in the US due to mothers aborting the children most likely to turn into criminals: the neglected and abused.

Let's further my vision of the world after the abortion ban for a minute: Not only are there abortion clinic stings set up, with women being thrown into maternity prisons, but you've got a state actively taking the children from them and putting them into a swollen foster care system where they will be raised as orphans, wards of the state, without many of the benefits of a good upbringing. Women will hurt themselves trying to cause miscarriages, sometimes permanently. Some states will start increasing taxes to pay for the expanded food and health care they must provide. Lots of children will "fall through the cracks", turning to whatever support systems exist for them, including gangs.

Is this what is meant by "compassionate conservatism"? Is this what is meant by "a culture of life"? In all of this, I do not see compassion, only a larger and more intrusive government, that is not only content to illegally tap our phones, watch our activities in the library, and seeks to undermine the Bill of Rights, but now wants to tell women what they can and cannot do with their wombs. Big Brother indeed.