Abortion and the Economy

So an argument that Planned Parenthood and several other pro-choicers like to use is that abortion is somehow good for the economy.  They base this on the idea that if there are fewer people then mothers as well as the state will have fewer people to take care of. First of all this is an insufficient argument to begin with.  If abortion truly is an act of homicide then its effect on the economy is morally irrelevant.  We simply should not kill fellow human beings, especially our own children, for economic benefits.Second, our economy would do just fine without legal abortion.  I don’t recall us being a third world country before 1973.  Steven W. Mosher and Colin Mason of the Population Research Institute, a pro-life think tank, have successfully refuted this argument.  They argue that while yes, kids cost a lot, said kids eventually grow up, become independent, get a career, and fulfill the second requirement of life, pay taxes.  The economy needs people to function; it needs to at least have a population that replaces itself.  Abortion on demand contradicts this principle.Planned Parenthood has economic interest in expanding abortion.  This is evident by their wide ratio of abortions to adoptions.  In 2007 they performed 62 abortions for every 1 adoption referral.  While they may profit from abortion, our generation, as well as the natural right to live, doesn’t.