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Originally Posted by Jefferson Yeah, okay. You're not pro-abortion, you're pro-woman? And I don't "crap", I "poop." 
You have already stated, repeatedly, that you are FOR a woman choosing to end the life of her unborn baby - for whatever reason.
If you're so "pro-woman"...
Why not be FOR empowering women to not get pregnant in the first place?
Why not be FOR educating people who want to have sex so that they don't get pregnant?
Why not be FOR helping people be accountable for their behavior, and face the consequences of it - something everyone really does have to do all their lives?
Why not be FOR holding men accountable for their sexual activities?
Why not be FOR the millions of women who cannot have babies of their own, and want to adopt?
Why not be FOR educating women who are thinking about having an abortion, rather than shoving them through the abortion mill before they can really ponder and mull over the abortion information they've been given?
Why not be FOR parental notification, so that teenage girls don't have their reproductive organs mutilated by over-zealous abortion doctors?
Funny thing is, I'm pro-woman too. I just go about it different. I'm pro-woman in that...
- I love and am committed to my wife of nearly 25 years.
- I have continued to take personal responsibility for the 3 times I got my wife pregnant - and have continued to be present and responsible for our children, even the two that are adults.
- We have TOGETHER decided on birth control for all these years - the final contraceptive measure being one I took.
- I am NOT willing to LIE to people and say that legal abortion is either safe, or moral.
That's a FAR CRY from standing on a street-corner, holding up a sign, and screaming, "Let them get their abortions!!!!" |
I believe in expanded education programs and distribution of birth control, because abortion should be, and is a last resort. I am against parental notification because the fear of reprecussions might stick a girl with a child she can't take care of, or worse, she might seek illegal, dangerous means.
Honestly, you'res spouting bullshit. You're lumping every single member of the movement into the same catagory. I might as well say that everyone who believes in God is stupid, or that everyone that supports the Iraq war is stupid. Obviously, such a generalization is FALSE. The same goes for abortion issues.
You are assuming that I believe abortion is the best solution. Frankly, that's stupid. Abortion is the last resort of the desperate. I believe we should try to reduce the number of abortions by increasing education and the availability of birth control, not by banning it. I do not believe that abortion is murder, but it is a surgical produdure, and it is a life-altering action with a risk of severe mental reprecussions... Like regret. Things that can eat at you for the rest of your life. I think abortion is and should be
an option, not the only option.
I do support having a waiting period and at least one free counciling session for anyone who is seeking an abortion. However, I belive the decision ultimately should lie with the woman, and not the state. It's none of the government's business, since it is a moral gray area. Maybe not in your mind, but what evidence do you have besides your uncertainty as to where life begins?
I commend your personal decisions. I would also like to point out that those decisions were personal. Some people oppose any birth control as vehemently as you oppose abortion. How would you like it if the government made that decision for you?
I also assure you that I do not spend any of my time standing on a street corner, shouting for people to get abortions.