Last week I saw a bumper sticker on a car parked near my house (across a pedestrian crossing, no less, when there were parking spaces ten feet away) that read "It's easy to be pro-abortion when you're not the one getting killed". I wanted to tear the damned thing off, because I think abortion is very much a grey area, but it's easy to be against it when you're not the one having to deal with the consequences of an unplanned pregnancy. People will always have abortions somehow. If they can't have legal abortions, they will have illegal ones. The way to reduce numbers of abortions is not to legislate against them, but to provide education, alternatives, and if nothing else will do, safety and medical care to deal with the process itself and its aftermath. There are too many people on the planet, and it's gotten to the point where bringing the population down through means that would be viewed as amoral by some people - permitting homosexuality rather than enforcing heterosexuality, encouraging the use of contraceptives, and if all else fails then permitting abortions - seems like a good idea to me just in terms of population control, otherwise the aborted babies will just have left early to avoid the rush.
I totally agree on the bumper sticker and the next person who says 'But what if you're aborting the next Einstein/Mozart/etc.' to me does so at their own risk.
And the point about legal abortions is well-made and something I forgot to mention. Abortions happen. This is a fact and the best way to deal with it is the one you describe.
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And the point about legal abortions is well-made and something I forgot to mention. Abortions happen. This is a fact and the best way to deal with it is the one you describe.
(And your icon slays me. ^^)
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