What I’ve never understood about the whole abortion fracas is this: The whole discussion could be over and done within a generation if only the conservatives who claim to be against abortion would get smart about it.
How?
Simple. Give the abortionists what they want. Heck, help them. Drive their constituents to abortion clinics with a smile upon one’s face, knowing that you’re preventing another welfare-sucking Democrat/liberal voter from coming into the US.
Even better, campaign for forced sterilization: Any woman going in for a second abortion gets a free ticket to a tubal litigation. No charge at all. Paid for by the state.
Then up the tax benefits for those who want to adopt children. Put on a national campaign to adopt children away from liberals.
After about 10 to 15 years, when the Democrats look at the demographic implosion in upcoming Democratic voter registrations, they’ll cease backing abortion completely. The argument will be forever over and done, and no political hack will ever back it again.
The problem here is that ‘conservatives’ would rather trumpet their principles and their holier-than-thou preening rather than fight political fights to a point where they’re won and done.
Back in ‘73, heck earlier than that—when New York okayed abortion—I allowed myself to think that way. LET them get their abortions; there’ll be fewer of ‘em.
Like today’s kids, however, who believe gay marriage will affect only the part of the population screaming for it, I couldn’t have been wronger. There’s a price to pay for moral laxity, never mind moral suicide. And it doesn’t need to be allayed to God’s anger on the subject. God gave us natural law, and part of the onus on recipients of that law is to recognize and support it. How can right-thinking people, and by that I mean honest, ethical people, possibly believe Nature (even if we reject God) supports damage to procreation, to a specie’s “carelessness” about its own survival? Without going into the whole chain, what we end up with as a race is being a little bit UNpregnant. Because abortion’s demonstrably wrong on a macro scale, it can’t be supported on a micro scale.
Ditto for sterilization/tubal ligations.
Even so, I couldn’t agree more with increasing and promoting adoption. The stigma of unwed pregnancies is gone. What’s the problem?
I think its even simpler than that. I think if the anti abortion people would just shut up about birth control and the morning after pill, we could outlaw late term abortion tomorrow, and midterm abortion next year, and probably early term abortion the year after that.
Well, that and the fact that we believe human life (even the spawn of liberal scum) is precious.
Wow! You are the closest I have ever seen to channeling Jonathan Swift.