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Please explain how abortions mean more money for billionaires.
Because then there's less pressure for the state to pay proper welfare. I recently learned that the United States doesn't have guaranteed maternity leave! "Oh, we don't do maternity leave, just have an abortion" the illusion of choice in a world ruled by billionaires!
From a billionaire's perspective, more at risk children means more people to be exploited. There's a whole industry fed by cheap prison labor. Orphans who go through the prison system are incarcerated or arrested at nearly 50% much of which gets funneled into cheap labor.
It seems like you're not from the US, but it doesn't matter how many working class votes we have, many industries in this country thrive off of exploitation of people outside of the view of the general populace starting with slaves, continuing to indentured servants, and undocumented workers now. The next exploitable labor pool is the prison system, and children who would have been aborted are sent to foster care instead where they are funneled into the criminal justice system.
I'm not saying you should have an abortion just so the child doesn't potentially end up in jail, I'm just pointing out how the incentives to have a permanent underclass would actually support bans on abortion.
I'm wondering if you're maybe thinking of the book Freakonomics where they attribute the legalization of abortion with the drop in crime?