Q for ‘Pro-Lifers’: How many kids have you ADOPTED from

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227. A lot of things....

For one thing, we need to provide free daycare. And, if the mother works, and is too sick to work, we need to provide the money to her household so that she doesn't need to work. I could name many other ways that we can support these mothers, but the main thing is that we need to make it more worthwhile for her to have the child than it is to abort the child. Not punitively, but in a positive manner. It's called paying on the front end, which our society does not often do. That doesn't mean that we can't do it, though.

I really think that this is in the spirit of the original post--to say to people that are against abortion that perhaps they ought to do something about it, in a positive manner. Unfortunately, on both sides of this issue, we engage in inflammatory rhetoric--like requiring that all pro lifers adopt a foster child. It's just ludicrous; and neither feasible nor practical.

This is a wedge issue, and the powers that be are using it to divide us. Instead of attacking each other, we need to rise above the fray, sack the inflammatory rhetoric, and begin to come together to agree on the things that we can stand together on--like ways to make abortion not a choice that results in punitive measures, but a choice that is the least positive of all the avenues available.