Perhaps I’ve been looking at my homework too long, but there is a flaw in your argument.
There have been 35 years since the decision, which according the original number you used means there have been (on average) 1,388,285 abortions per year. Assuming one teacher per 30 students, this would mean 46,276 more teachers would be needed per year. Of course this is if you assume there wouldn’t be offspring from missing early-mid 70s babies in school, which would further increase the original total of missing students.
The other flaw in your argument is while there would be more teaching jobs, there would be more people to fill those jobs over time. There are two caveats to this statement though. A sudden decrease in the number of students (ie. 1973 plus about ten years), would mean a sudden decrease in the number of jobs without a decrease in the applicant pool. 1973 babies began teaching in 1995, so that’s when the proportionate fewer number of jobs matched the proportionally smaller applicant pool. The reverse would happen if abortion were made illegal once again: more babies would be born, thus creating more teaching jobs for an applicant pool that hasn’t experienced the increase in numbers yet. So if abortion were made illegal, it would take approximately 22 years for the job pool and student pool to equalize. Make sense?
I’m definitely against abortion, but if you are going to play the numbers game, it’s good to have correct numbers and attempt to list your assumptions. I could probably drone on and on about more assumptions that could be made here, but I think I need to get back to my homework.
