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This is a generalization, but I have found that the people who are MOST opposed to abortion are on the front lines fighting against sex ed & contraception. If you really, sincerely believe that abortion is "murder", then wouldn't you make sure that condoms & birth control are available from puberty on? They want to pretend that if we do nothing but preach, scold & condescend, then kids will ignore millions of years of evolution and stop having sex. If they do have sex, then an unwanted child is their "punishment".
posted by
Professor_Peabody
on November 7, 2006 at 9:28 PM
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You are absolutely right, kooka. Ignorance may be bliss, but it is
extremely detrimental to society. Education is the answer and is always the answer. Just because you don't like or enjoy the solution to a problem does not negate the solution. Abortion is not a nice or pretty topic, but it does serve to ensure that unwanted children aren't born into abusive or neglectful households, or, in its best aspect, into situations of benign nonabusive neglect where the children are ignored. These children tend to become socially malignant.
Giving women no choice in the matter is morally wrong. Imposing a particular portion of society's will on the individual woman with regard to her body is dictatorial and wrong. Good post, kooka. But don't expect to sway any conservative fundamentalists.
posted by
saul_relative
on October 27, 2006 at 8:50 PM
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The wrod you're looking for is "effects", Kooka
posted by
Blanche.
on October 26, 2006 at 9:00 PM
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