What would the United States be like if they outlawed birth control?

Question

What would the United States be like if they outlawed birth control?

Answer 1

Full.

Answer 2

Yeah, lots of dangerous abortions going on illegally, I know a woman who had one in Mexico in the 60s on a table covered in newspaper... Also it would become a terrible welfare state with the lower classes having way more children than they could take care of. The education system would decline rapidly from overcrowding. Black market birth control would boom, and so would smuggling... oh and stds and AIDS would skyrocket... oh that would be awful! Perhaps the women would rise up in a violent revolt. I hope so.

BTW, regerrug, you misinterpreted that data. The statistic was that one third of all abortions in America are obtained by black women. That's not the same thing at all.

Answer 3

Crowded and pregnant

Answer 4

Horrible, there would be children everywhere.  

Answer 5

f***ed up thats what it would be like!

Answer 6

It would be like the United States in the 1950's, a lot of illegal and dangerous back alley abortions for the poor, and the rich would still have their private doctors performing them anyways.

Answer 7

We would have to use a lot of condoms and probs have infants out the wazoo.

Answer 8

crowded with lots of rug rats

Answer 9

Depends, is abortion going to be outlawed as well? If not then more abortions. Some will just put the kids up for adoption, and there are enough selfish people who only want a baby if they adopt(a little kid needs adopted as well). Some will also get sterilized, still would be a form of birth control though(just like abortion would become). So if you outlaw ALL of it then probably less people going out having s*x freely.

Answer 10

People would be getting married and having kids and not sleeping around like hores and having diseases and illegitimate kids.

Answer 11

babies, babies, and more babies.

Answer 12

Overpopulated...... by morons....

So not much different. ;-)

Answer 13

Like it was before the 1960's--a much saner country.

Answer 14

There'd be more abortions (both doc office type and back alley type), more infants abandoned, and in general more drama and a ever increasing drain on tax payers from medicaid, wic, food stamps, tanif, etc...

Considering the number of couples currently waiting to adopt, the number of abortions done daily, and the number of unwanted pregnancies that exist, I can't help but agree with another poster... It would be like China, but I don't think it would take 100 years... I think it would only take 20-30 years.

Answer 15

much like it was when i was a kid in the 50's

Answer 16

The same as it is now

Answer 17

china

Answer 18

It would look like Mexico, lots of babies, no money, no way to feed them, endless poverty cycle  

Answer 19

pretty mch the sme..

Answer 20

like China in 100 years

Answer 21

Man, we would need ALOT of Playstations to educate the little ones in the finer points of carjacking and other malicious mischief.

Answer 22

It would be intolerable to live here. Yes, I know people find a way to survive but I wouldn't like to live in a crowded area. It would be like living in the inner city everywhere. I am glad there is birth control and even though there are people who think that using methods of birth control are wrong---I would say they are really wrong. The only thing I could think of that people wouldn't want birth control is to have  masses of people to underpay for the jobs we do. More people needing jobs means that people can get payed less.

Answer 23

A bigger population under 20.

Answer 24

It would be filled with teenage pregnancy, no doubt about that...

Answer 25

Kiddies would have to finally use their zipper as birth control.