05-11-2011, 03:41 AM
I don't have time to respond to everything you said, so I'll start with the first one.
The majority of people that are interested in ending abortion are not the same people interested in promoting contraception. The majority of people interested in ending abortion are also not the same people interested in having anything whatsoever to do with a young girl having unprotected sex out of wedlock. There is no magical middle happyland. It's either "NO ABORTION! NO CONTRACEPTIVES! NO SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE!" or nothing. You might be able to be reasonable about it, but the VAST majority of anti-abortionists cannot.
So we are still left with the issue of poor, scared, young, undereducated girls getting pregnant.
(05-10-2011, 04:56 AM)kandrathe Wrote: That is one common argument. Drugs are still going to be used, so why not make it legal? People are going to do X, so let's make X cheap and very accessible. But, maybe, if we focused on effective contraception, or adoption, or making single parenthood less onerous/scary, and make those choices more accessible, then we wouldn't have (as many) abortions. It is a terrible form of birth control.
The majority of people that are interested in ending abortion are not the same people interested in promoting contraception. The majority of people interested in ending abortion are also not the same people interested in having anything whatsoever to do with a young girl having unprotected sex out of wedlock. There is no magical middle happyland. It's either "NO ABORTION! NO CONTRACEPTIVES! NO SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE!" or nothing. You might be able to be reasonable about it, but the VAST majority of anti-abortionists cannot.
So we are still left with the issue of poor, scared, young, undereducated girls getting pregnant.