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Originally Posted by timmgirvan
Bull-pucky Brian! and the same liberal prattle from GR! To suggest that these people don't care about the children once they're out of the womb is wrong and disengenuous. I am strongly pro-life but...it is a womans right to choose. My problem is they choose whatever solution without enough info...thereby making an un-informed choice. Not to forget about personal responsibility!
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So, Timm, then where are your posts advocating guaranteed paid pre-natal care and maternity leave? Or day care? Or health insurance for every child? What about your passionate posts demanding mandatory birth control education for all kids, so they know how to reduce risk of pregnancy and disease? Please post links to those (actually) pro-life posts of yours, proving that you care about kids once they're out of the womb. I must have missed them.
This may surprise you, my favorite Dittohead, but no woman wants to ever, ever be in the position of having to have an abortion. Not one. They choose it when they feel they have no other choice, and the majority of the time it's a financial decision (and abortion itself is expensive, which is why you see more 2nd-term abortions that there should be). Because raising kids in this country is very expensive- as I'm sure you can tell stories about, being a parent yourself. Unless you feel that only rich people should have sex? If that's your position, please say so. Because right now you're accusing other people of misunderstanding you and "prattling" but I don't see you posting anything to back up your assertion that you care about kids.
So, what's your position on our obligation to the nation's children? What are you willing to do to reduce the number of abortions? Are you willing to see your taxes raised to pay for the unplanned kids' health care, day care, schooling? How do you propose reducing the number of abortions without punishing poor women by keeping them in poverty, raising kids they couldn't afford (which punishes the kids, too)? What's your solution? in all seriousness, I'd like to know what you think is the best course to reducing abortions- really, truly- what do you think is best?
(For the record, I'd pay higher taxes for better care of our nation's kids and I don't even have any. Though I think the best, first, stand should be for mandatory birth control education of every public school student and easy access to contraception for all Americans.)
Please know though, Timm, I give you HUGE props for saying it's the woman's decision. In a perfect world, both parties would be involved equally, but in the real world, only one of them takes on the physical risks and truthfully, most of the financial ones as well. A lot of men don't grasp that- it's nice that you do.
(On a happy note, yay for my 42-year-old friend who just found out she's pregnant, for the first time in her life. Not that she'd been trying- in fact, she figured her fertile years were over but life is full of surprises.
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