Criminalizing abortion doesn't stop abortion - it just makes it more dangerous.
The Trump administration may be the most fervently anti-abortion since Reagan.
This will likely come as a surprise to every man who, prior to Trump’s election, assured me, “don’t worry, he’s really a democrat! He’s not going to do anything about abortion!”
It seems you guys were wrong.
Trump has reinstated the global gag rule, preventing funding for overseas reproductive health organizations that offer abortion related services. Closer to home, Trump signed a bill on April 13 that allows states to cut off funding from organizations like Planned Parenthood that provide abortions. He has suggested that federal funding could continue to go to the women’s health organization only if they stopped performing abortions.
All of this falls under the banner of a “pro-life” agenda.
Indeed, Vice President Mike Pence and counselor to the President, Kellyanne Conway, both spoke enthusiastically at the March for Life. There, the Vice President proclaimed, “We will not rest until we restore a culture of life in America.”
Perhaps when people enact these laws, they imagine what a world with more restrictive abortion rights—or a “culture of life”—looks like. I do not think these people are evil. I suspect they have a vision of a world that is flawed. I think when they imagine that world of outlawed abortions, they imagine a world full of adorable, bouncing babies. They imagine happy mothers, and fathers who are, unexpectedly, delighted and doting fathers.
That is not reality.
The impulse to restrict a woman's access to the full range of health services (including abortion) is dumb for a mess of good reasons - not the least of which is that the decision to have kids or not to have kids belongs to whoever gets pregnant.
If you prefer the clear-eyed pragmatic approach, then another reason is plain old ordinary economics. It's cheaper and way more cost-effective to prevent the problems caused by unwanted pregnancies. And going with workable measures that actually lower the need for abortion is way better than the bullshit law-n-order "solutions" either in place now, or being proposed to remedy those problems.
BTW - "workable" and "abstinence only" are incompatible. Remember - total abstinence wasn't 100% effective even for god.
Allow me to reiterate the basics on this:
- Eggs ain't chickens
- Caterpillars ain't butterflies
- Ain't nuthin' goin' on in my daughter's uterus that's any of your fuckin' business
- So fuck the fuck off, you pinch-faced blue-nosed puritanical fuck
Eggs ain't chickens
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Ain't nuthin' goin' on in my bank account that's any of your fuckin' business
So fuck the fuck off, you pinch-faced blue-nosed thieving fuck
What's the connection you're trying to make between my abortion point and your bank account? Or is that all you care about?
DeleteBut if that's all you care about, then you need to think quite a bit harder - or maybe you could just learn to read a bit better, since I made the economics point as well.
2nd - a little short on originality, aren'tcha?
One day, the world will have to seriously address over-population. Just wait until the screaming starts then. However, the saving grace for "over-population" is the possibility of global warming drowning millions living near the coastlines of the Earth or famine and drought causing millions to die from malnutrition and/or dehydration and disease first. Of course, that's not going to be all that great for who is left.
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