Debbi wrote:
I have made plain my position that reducing the
incidence of abortion (when not for medical reasons)
is desirable; but it should be primarily by reducing
ignorance (genuine or deliberate), poverty, substance
abuse and cultural schizophrenia ("Don't do 'It,' but
be a sexy hottie who makes them all pant after you!").
And contraception failure will be an issue for the
foreseeable (?sp) future.
Yes, yes, yes, thank you, thank you, thank you. All too often abortion is a symptom of ignorance, poverty, and the other factors you list, along with many others. If you want to reduce the incidence of abortion, treat the disease, not the symptoms. Fund educational programs for the poor. Fund training programs that help the poor become not poor by giving them job skills, so they can become productive, tax-paying citizens. Don't fund already-rich lawyers and tax cuts for the rich which equal benefit cuts for the poor in an attempt to "criminalize the symptoms while you spread the disease" (quote from a song by Ani DiFranco).
I have to agree with you on this also.My view on child abusers has also been outlined previously, and is severe to the point of capital punishment. Beating, sodomizing and starving a first-grader is not within multiple orders of magnitude of aborting a 10-week fetus. Not Even Close.
Reggie Bautista
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