I agree. That's also the reason why doctors(I believe) refuse to operate any later then the 2nd trimester.
Although... if they are not capable of caring for the child, then they should not birth the thing. In the majority of countries, there are problems with the adoption agencies, the foster care systems, and homelessness. We have over 6 billion people on this small planet of ours, and unless we're gonna colonize the moon sometime soon, we won't be able to afford this kind of growth for much longer.
If you do not want, and cannot care for a child, then there is absolutely no point in bringing it into this world.
BTW, I feel as though, as gay men, we have absolutely NO SAY in the matter, other then sympathy for our friends/family who do this, or are arguing over this, and suffering from possible mental breakdown because of it.
Colonizing the moon wouldn't make much difference, even. World population grows at more than 200,000 per day. If we had a space elevator, we could conceivably send perhaps 15,000 per day up as high as geostationary orbit. But even were that possible, to keep that stream of people moving on to the moon would require nearly a thousand transports capable of hauling fifty people -- 600 just to keep the stream moving, at the very least, plus those sitting on the ground fueling, those undergoing regular inspection, those down for maintenance, those sitting as backups should any fail...
Such craft would likely cost hundreds of millions each -- let's say five for a billion. So the transport fleet alone would cost $200 billion to build -- not exactly cheap.
In all, setting up a system capable of moving all the people who go up one space elevator to go to the moon could run to $500 billion.
To move just the increase in world population would take more than a dozen space elevators, and each fleet serving it would cost another $500 billion. So overall it would take $6 trillion plus to keep the earth's population from increasing, by moving people to the moon.
A moon base to receive them? Call it a trillion just for starters; follow that with annual expansion costs.
No one has the political will to spend that kind of money. There are investors standing by for the day we have material strong enough to put up the first space elevator (estimated cost $12 billion, and that's conservative), but they're not going to be turning it into a train service for population relief. Besides that, it's doubtful that we'll be getting any material strong enough to support hundreds of cars and their passengers strung out between ground and geosynchronous orbit; dozens of cars at once is more within reason.
So solving the population problem is going to have to be accomplished here. If we use the moon for anything, I think it would make a wonderful place to send life prisoners -- where could they run?
