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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Lane3 who wrote (4621)1/3/2017 9:35:32 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 354088
 
motherjones.com

The abortion rate has been falling steadily. Women, when given good access to birth control, will usually choose that. Abortions are not pleasant, and most women want to avoid them- whether or not they think a bundle of cells or a tadpole size critter is a "person". The best way to make abortion rare (and to "encourage" people not to use it) is to give women free, easy to access birth control- statistics bear that out- because men are crap at preventing pregnancies, as wearing condoms interferes with their pleasure. But the patriarchal power structure in many states often wants to penalize "loose" women by denying them both birth control and abortions. It's a rather old testament kind of thinking, but there's a lot of that going around (I think if you gelded men for getting unmarried women pregnant you'd probably see a huge drop in abortion stats- but no one is proposing THAT...).

Here's some weird thinking for you:

heraldtribune.com

I get that some religious feel "upset" by abortions, and they should not have them (no one should force them to) but to force other people to remain pregnant, because it upsets someone else's religion, is ridiculous. It's too bad people can't just self abort, like rabbits and armadillos- but we can't.
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