In this day an age of sex education, birth control pills, surgeries for both men and women, spermacide disk, not to mention the old fashioned condoms that you should be using anyway for other reasons. If people do not have the good sense to use any of those preventions then you ought not have sex. In the end though killing the child is not the answer.
As far as abortion, I agree that abortions shouldn't happen. No one likes abortion. But even if you made abortion punishable by death, it will still happen. The rich will be able to get rouge surgeons to do it easily and the poor will get jabbed with coat hangers. Death won't be a deterrent because the risk of getting caught will be minimal, since the majority of people wouldn't know they were pregnant. So the question becomes do we force people to get it done using substandard care with germs etc, that might make the woman sterile. OR do we allow it in a hospital even if we personally despise it, in order to keep it healthy. I choose #2. And I also choose to go for education. We can make the abortion numbers in this country go down a significant amount through education and better access to contraception. Isn't that the best way to go?
https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3002498.pdf
again... sorry for the mix-up.
The orignial "thesis" still stands... these are not including miscarriages, as the author makes plainly clear.
Although it is a crappy comparison, I always said the same thing about prostitution. People are gonna do it regardless. Isn't it better to keep the women protected and make sure they are clean, than to leave things on the street?
To answer your question... I'm 100% pro-choice, or pro-anti-government-interference, or whatever the fuck Bowers et al. want us to say now...
so, the answer is "yes"... I would have never gotten into such an argument with you, as we're both 100% in agreement.
This cracks me up. If people don't have the good sense to use modern contraceptive techniques, you expect them to be able to resist the fundamental biological imperative? That's really rich.
And, having failed to stifle the urge, you expect these totally-lacking-in-good-sense individuals to be on their best behavior for the months required to bring a baby to term, let alone the years of follow-up?
I don't think killing the infant is the answer, either, but neither to I think that criminalization solves anything. Do you?
Or do you own stock in a coathanger company?
