One unintended consequence of the republican SCOTUS abortion ban will be the accidental birth or forced birth of hundreds of babies with severe birth defects who's care will require around the clock nursing and more likely, institionalization.
Particularly in poor states like Louisiana with the most extreme bans a return to massive "warehousing" of orphans, severely retarded, deformed and delinquent children in state facilities such as New York's notorious Willowbrook(1970s) will have to return as the only alternative to termination of unwise pregnancies before they become wards of the state!
In some such cases a mother may choose jail over bringing to term a child doomed to a life of suffering from an incurable condition.
So the All knowing Christian Right determined to end abortion at all costs and career Republicans rushing to grab their votes will ironically bring back the administrative state of human containment requiring massive, brutal, opaque institutions dependant on tax dollars with huge staffs, inadequate staffing or even patient care - robots!
At least one social benefit may result. As institionalization of society's misfits becomes the norm in nearly every state a mental health dragnet will form or resume operation increasing the chances that today's recreational mass murderers will be detected and fitted for straight jackets before they can pick up guns and our target society!
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