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Here are a couple of excerpts that will remind us that outlawing abortion is not a solution to the problem.
That was an excellent find. Thanks for locating and posting it.
Yes, women have tried to abort probably since about the time of the cave men.
But the difference today is that we have, as previous societies did not, a wide range of options of safe and effective contraceptive provisions. So it isn't totally unfair to suggest that any woman who gets pregnant today other than by rape may not have chosen to get pregnant, but didn't choose not to, either.
Again excepting rape, women choose whether to have intercourse with a man, they choose whether to be using contraception at the time, they choose whether to give the man a condom and demand that he use it, etc.
Of course some guys will use persuasion to try to get the woman into bed (or haystack or back seat or wherever) with them without worrying about protection. But I'm old fashioned enough to believe that women are responsible for their actions, and that "he talked me into it" is no excuse.
So in this day and age, again excepting rape, every pregnancy is either voluntary or is the result of a volutary decison not to use available contraception and to accept the slight risk of the failure of contraception.
Again outside of rape, every pregnancy is the result of choice. Maybe not the specific choice to get pregnant, but the choice to engage in unprotected or inadequately protected sex.
Personally, I don't see any reason not to expect people to accept the consequences of their decisions. On the contrary, I see a significant detriment to society when we adopt an attitude that people don't need to accept responsibility for their decisions, but that they can act stupidly and we'll protected them from the outcome of their stupidity. Such a social policy is, IMO, counterproductive and societally suicidal over time.
An off topic aside: a large, tightly packed flock of seagulls just skimmed along right above the water for about a half-mile. I thought at first it was a fast moving boat, but then I realized it was a flock of gulls that was just skimming the water at high speed. |
