>That way lies Auschwitz, comrade.
You and Carrol seem to be on the same wavelength. Improving the population is in my mind equivalent with improving society. I thought that it was only the eugenics freaks who thought that extermination was equivalent to improving the population.
Personally, I think that, while abortion may be a short term solution for women who don't feel that they can afford the sacrifices of motherhood, abortion is an index of a social problem. When you've altered the situation of the women (who are part of the population) so that they don't feel that raising a child will handicap them from participating in society fully, then you should also reduce the demand for abortion. So in that sense abortion is an index of the social health. And because abortion is a focus issue for all of the social sectors it can bridge differences. Socialist want social health and equal opportunity. Right to lifers want mothers to embrace motherhood. If the issues are clearly associated and used to guide social policy, you will experience "leadership". It'll be weird.
Martin