Posted on 02/01/2013 5:16:16 PM PST by Morgana
also, none of this will get better either until you get rid of no-fault divorces. the left has treated every aspect’of men-women relationshps so cavalierly and so imdifferently and that’s been the entire mindset that’s caused the problems all across the board.
Boy, we sure ain't getting our money's worth, are we?
"Instead of reminding people what they are doing when they have an abortion, we need to have have people think about what they are doing when they are having sex," Helen Alvaré, a law professor at George Mason University, said as a featured panelist at the National Press Club during a symposium held by Americans United for Life last Thursday. The pro-life movement is appropriately squeezing the "supply-side of abortion" through legislation focusing on ultrasounds and informed consent, as well as an expanding network of crisis pregnancy centers... what is being overlooked is "the demand-side of abortion" -- the hook-up culture that often leads to unintended pregnancies... "Young women talking about what it's like out there in the market for sex, marriage, and mating will tell you they are not happy" with what Alvaré calls "the Unbearable Lightness of Sex."
Nothing will change until both pro-life and pro-choice women take responsibility for propagating abortion through their “victim” attitude.
If men could opt out of forced paternity, like women can, the age of rampant permissive sex would be over.
Why not inform women that their right to choose exists well before intercourse.
Wow! This woman is spot on!
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
Seems like a fairly concise statement to me.
What part are you having trouble understanding?
My wife worked in Stanford's infertility clinic for a number of years. The statement above is an understatement.
To quote myself:
I hate to tell you how many women fitting that description are showing up at infertility clinics desperate to have a baby (my wife worked in one), not to mention having a much higher proportion of babies burdened with lifetime learning disabilities such as Down's Syndrome (she works in the Newborn Intensive Care unit now). Effectively, our educational system is structured to preclude the middle class from replacing itself.
As this demographic trend continues, as the demands of what constitutes an education grow, and as machines replace even professional positions, the only people having kids even approaching their full potential will be the very well-to-do, with the very poor having little prospect of a competitive education at all. History teaches that this arrangement leads inevitiably to social cataclysm, representing not just the death of a culture but a nation.
Worse, were it even possible to "fix" said existing system, we would have to wait between 15-20 years for the benefits to even begin to be realized. Needless to say given our parlous finances, disaster will have preclueded even the possibility of that "eventual" marginal improvement.
Hence, simple reproductive biology teaches that this problem of "eductation" MUST be dissolved as a matter of life and death, NOW. The matter is too urgent to be left to succeeding generations, while improving the existing system won't cut it. - Source
I’m not sure what Bainbridge is having trouble understanding. I’m having trouble understanding how you see us pro-life women as having a victim attitude.
If men could opt out of forced paternity, like women can, the age of rampant permissive sex would be over.
It has been my experience from many years here on FreeRepublic, that given a choice between saving babies and losing their monopoly on evading parenthood, even pro-life women will sacrifice the baby...every time.
Yeah, you're right. Sorry. I've been involved with this idea for so long it has become ingrained with me.
Please see above post.
Excuse me. I should have said “given a choice between saving babies, and providing for women who ‘make a mistake,’ ....”
Get out from behind your keyboard and go stand with me on an icy morning in front of an abortion clinic. Help me counsel a woman who is seven months pregnant and peparing for a late-term abortion. Help me assemble a crib for a mother who was talked out of killing her child. Then tell me that we're prepared to sacrifice babies in order to avoid parenthood.
And how has ANY of those things gotten us one step closer to ending abortion?
Clearly the paradigm being pursued by pro-life women has failed, but they refuse to change it for fear of losing “the bird in the hand.”
As for your challenge, I’ve done many of them already, but I’m not vain enough to think preserving a few individual grains of sand offsets the fact the beach is being washed away right out from under me.
bfl
I think this person has an “issue” with the fair sex. If both pro life and pro abort are blameworthy that includes pretty much all women.
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