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 Until the system is fixed so that people even in extreme poverty both know how (and are able) to build up their ability to afford access to contraceptives through their own efforts, impossible with FIAT currencies debasing savings and wages, forced birth is nothing but a punishment of further impoverishment for those who cannot afford contraceptives and choose to have sex anyway. Because having sex is not optional for any creature in the Animal Kingdom including Humanity, it's genetically built into us to do it regardless of anything else.

Forced birth almost always happens to women who would never be approved to be foster parents or adoptive parents due to lack of a safe environment or resources. 

Are you in favor of mandatory state taxation to care for the children born to people who cannot care for them but are forced to carry them to term? What about state taxes going to fund the burials of women who don't survive birth but would've survived abortion? 

Do you prefer homeless or abused children instead of state funding?

I have seen what the world does to homeless children, it is not pretty. They are often enslaved, crippled, and abused.

Raising humans is not cheap, and it is a punishment to both the woman and the child to force the child to be raised in abusive environments or to be homeless. That is immoral. It is also immoral to force people under penalty of prison to pay to support children nobody wants.