Irvine511
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LemonMelon said:
Concerning this issue, yes, it's pretty black-or-white around here.
see, this is why i think being pro-choice makes abortion truly shades of gray.
so long as it is legal, a woman can decides what she wants and needs to do. you can be totally against abortion and view each one as a tragedy, but still think that making them illegal isn't the best course of action. i have much more respect for those in the pro-life camp who might volunteer at pregnancy emergency centers, work very hard to help women explore other options, etc. i fully understand where the objection to abortion comes from -- though i think tossing out the word "murder" is really, really unhelpful; that's not honesty, that's inflammatory, and it's ultimately extremely anti-female -- but i also don't think that you're going to end abortion by making it illegal.
if abortion is so terrible (and i know why people think it is) why don't you focus on prevention? isn't that what we're supposed to do with other medical issues? shouldn't you exercise and eat right so you don't have a heart attack? shouldn't you not smoke so you don't get lung cancer? likewise, shouldn't you be taught the basics of human sexuality and provided with fully covered birth control (pills, condoms, whatever) so that you don't get pregnant in the first place?
it seems to me that much -- not all -- of the pro-life movement views a pregnancy as a punishment for a woman who's obviously been slutty. she's not a virgin. she's slept with someone other than her husband. and now that little slut has produced a beautiful, innocent baby, and she better take her promiscuous ass and get it in gear and get a job at WalMart and start focusing on that baby. if she had just followed the rules and abstained and gotten married like a good girl, then she wouldn't have gotten pregnant. serves her right.
alternatives to abortion is one thing; outlawing it is something totally different.