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I find anti-abortion values inconsistent. If you favor life then if each prevented abortion costs $500+ you could have saved more lives by investing that money elsewhere. This money then goes to save real people, with personalities and everything.
I see no reason why the costs of enforcing anti-abortion would be low.
Do you apply the same logic to adults? How much does modern medicine cost?
yes, I am offended when people receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in publicly funded medicine.
Well, there are plenty of organisations that should be disbanded, and their assets donated to cost-effective charities. This is something of a high bar to hold people too though.
Cost to the government or cost to the people?
Cost to the government could be low if they don't put too much work into it and punish it via. fines. Cost to the people will probably be higher than that just because they have to go through pregnancy.
total wasted resources.
In order to make this argument work you need to argue that each averted abortion would divert enough money away from charities to cause someone to die.
I also note that your argument attacks the statement "We should prohibit abortion" on consequentialist grounds, while leaving the statement "Abortion is wrong" unassailed.
I have no opinion on whether killing babies is wrong. I generally consider it none of my business.