Which costs less - an abortion or raising a child? I want the government to be frugal with its resources.
You're looking at this in a small picture, short term sort of way. You're right that an abortion doesn't cost much, and raising a child is expensive. You're quite misguided if you think that this captures the costs involved in what you're proposing. You'll also need:
- extra law enforcement hired to find pregnant women and bring them for forcible abortion (likely psychological help for these people will be necessary)
- great legal teams who will be able to handle the thousands of lawsuits brought against your government
- even better legal teams to defend your actions to the rest of the world (the US justified invasion of Iraq for less cause than what you're proposing)
- extra security to protect the government from the inevitable generations of terrorists that you'll be brewing in your own country by following through
- doctors willing to perform this procedure (probably not actually doctors because they have to follow the hippocratic oath)
- a plan for the children who are hidden and manage not to be aborted . . . (Do you just kill them on sight? Will you have special executioners on payroll?)
- etc.
If you want something that will cost the government less money, you should probably tally up total costs.