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In reply to the discussion: Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty [View all]Th1onein
(8,514 posts)Why would an agnostic, who doesn't even know if there is a supreme being or not, believe that, in the case of rape, a supreme being is the cause of a child being conceived?
And, really, we both know that this statement is very INFLAMMATORY. Is that what you want, in this discussion? Rage? Get everybody all pumped up so that they can't discuss this issue with any degree of rational thought?
Let's make some conclusions that we can both agree on: Those who are "pro-choice" will never agree with those who are "pro-life." Right? Isn't that a true assessment of the situation?
Once that's agreed on, where do you go from there? You still have the problem of abortions. No one wants to have an abortion; no one does it for fun. They do it because there is no other solution. And they'll do it whether it's legal or illegal; whether it's safe or not.
Now, we've had people here say that there is, and never will be, any form of birth control that is foolproof. And that may or may not be true. But, even if it were true, we still have a system where the birth control that we DO have is not utilized properly.
That's a starting place, wouldn't you say? To solving the problem? Can we agree on that?