First, this completely ignores the fact that abortion is itself the ultimate example of child abuse.  Second, the right to life of a human being is not determined by whether or not some other human being wants them.  There are many born people in the world who we could label as unwanted, but that doesn’t mean we can kill them.  As for abortion, wantedness is a function of the humanity and character of the mother.  It has absolutely nothing to do with the right to life of her child. 

Third, this idea of preventing child abuse which might occur sometime in the future by executing the potential victims today, makes about as much sense as trying to eradicate wife-beating by executing all married women.

This issue also assumes that unwanted pregnancies always produce unwanted children.  The truth is that even among women whose pregnancies were the most unwanted, it is rare for them not to want their baby. 

Further, there is no evidence that unplanned – or even unwanted – children are any more likely to be abused than planned or wanted ones.  To the contrary, in 1980, Professor Edward Lenoski at the University of Southern California studied over 600 cases of child abuse.  He found that in over 90% of these cases, the parents said that the child they abused had been a wanted child. 

The fact is, since abortion was made legal in 1973, we have killed unborn children by the tens of millions yet child abuse has increased dramatically.  According to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, in 1973, there were 167,000 cases of child abuse reported in the United States.  In 2002, the Department of Health and Human Services reported 1,694,756 child abuse investigations in the United States.  In 450,817 cases, the abuse was confirmed, and in another 58,964 it was determined that abuse was “indicated.”

Some of this 10-fold increase in child abuse could be due to better reporting, but better reporting could not possibly explain an increase of this magnitude.  There is no other rational conclusion but that our country has suffered a staggering increase in child abuse since we legalized abortion.  That fact demands that we force the pro-choice gang to answer one very simple question.  If legalized abortion reduces child abuse by making sure that every child is a wanted child – and since you’ve executed between 45 and 50 million children so far – where did all these children who are being abused today come from?