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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)In the case of rape, Plan B should be used. I don't disagree with that.
But the rest of it? It's just rhetoric, and empty rhetoric at that. You have stated your position; I have stated mine. Where did it get us in terms of resolving the problem of unwanted pregnancies? Nowhere.
Abortion being a huge issue is another example of our society paying on the back end. We pay on the back end when we do nothing about poverty. Instead, we let children be raised in poverty, don't give them an education, or a means of making a living, and we are shocked when they turn to crime. And we pay on the back end by spending billions on prisons to lock them up.
Same thing with abortion. We have very little in place to help the mother who wants to keep her child, but can't because of finances. We don't educate our children about birth control at a very early age, and our advertisers use sex to sell everything from perfume to inline skates. We pay on the back end with abortions, or with parents who can't take care of their children, and they end up in prisons.
We never really address the problem of unwanted pregnancies in any real way, and instead curse each other for supporting it or being against it. Such a waste of time and life.