Posted on 06/02/2011 3:59:08 PM PDT by wagglebee
Perfectly stated.
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But it is a perverse argument.
More people means more crime, more suicides, more traffic.
More people also means more amazing talents, more hopeful stories of overcoming adversity, more scientific discoveries, more writing, more friends, more hot babes, more EVERYTHING.
Everything that humans do - is reduced when abortion is performed.
To me this issue says a lot about how you value humankind.
Most liberals hate everyone, including themselves - and think mankind (their own “white oppressive patriarchal culture” especially)is a blight upon the Earth.
Myself, I love my brothers and sisters, the more the merrier!
Another person is not just another mouth to feed, but also two helping hands.
And just how is the crime rate dropped when every abortion is a murder?
Legalizing it isn’t going to get them out of accountability with God. Murder is murder, whether the state prosecutes or not.
It's hard to get them to admit it in public because they know how awful it sounds, but several have told me this in private.
Yes. Abortion actually encourages more crime, esp. sex offenders. Protects the irresponsible and the criminals from their consequences, in addition to being “legalized” murder itself. A heinous system of genocide, far surpassing all prior dictators’.
More that ONE BILLION babies have been killed worldwide in the past century.
Statistically that means that a thousand people who are as intelligent as anyone who has ever lived (on the level of DaVinci, Mozart, Locke, Mills, Jefferson, etc.) never had the opportunity to leave their mark on the world.
It's not out of the realm of possibility that the person who would cure cancer was murdered in utero and God does not see fit to send another.
Well “cure” is a stretch, given what I know about biology - but I accept your point 100%.
That argument put the “Freak” into their stupid book.
I don’t care how much you line up the numbers saying that most would be the children of single mothers.
What ever happened to overcoming adversity?
They look at numbers and just see averages.
You miss the entire show looking at averages.
People who make history are not average.
The fact is that a significant percentage of abortions are performed on whites women in their teens and early twenties from upper-middle class families. Women from the same backgrounds who choose to keep their babies typically do not become impoverished and their children do not become criminals.
The abortion pushers also ignore the FACT that, at least in America, Canada and western Europe, there are stable families willing to adopt EVERY SINGLE BABY who would otherwise be aborted.
Their ‘parents’ had to go through a screen for being stable people who wanted a child to raise.
Even if they're not, being "average" is far preferable to being murdered.
It is a tragedy that these babies are aborted, not only because they deserve life, but because there are couples with loving arms reaching out to receive them and love them. How tragic is this?
Criminals are one thing, demoKKKrats are another. What percentage of the people aborted since 1973 would have been lifelong demoKKKrats?? I mean, are there really that many Republicans and conservatives having abortions out there?? Unless you can answer that, there’s an obvious potential problem with wanting to pass draconian laws.
Kill everyone, end all crime. Logical, no?
I guess I’m the only one who never thought “Freakonomics” a particularly clever title.
Let me see if I've got this straight, YOU SUPPORT ABORTION based on the theory that those aborted would wind up being Democrats? Is that correct?
And for the record, of the 53 MILLION BABIES MURDERED since 1973, not a single one was a Democrat because not a single one ever drew a breath.
Unless you can answer that, there’s an obvious potential problem with wanting to pass draconian laws.
Really, you think that ending abortion would be "draconian"?
You do realize that Free Republic is a CONSERVATIVE PRO-LIFE forum don't you?
"Draconian laws?" You made a wrong turn.
Draconian laws?! Are you saying that women have a RIGHT to murder their own children because being pregnant may be inconvenient? Abortion is a modern day Moloch.
Here's what I AM saying.... I would advise women against abortions in something like 95% of cases. That other five percent of cases involve questions of rape or genetic compromise and the like; all you could hope to accomplish by banning those abortions is the destruction of the Republican party and the conservative movement. Ninety percent of Down Syndrome pregnancies in the industrialized world end in abortion. When you are being beaten nine to one in the marketplace of ideas or in the application of those ideas, you should not be talking about "having a moral absolute".
The 95% of abortions you want to get rid of are the ones young women are having to avoid "ruining their lives" which would have amounted to young married women happily having first children a hundred years ago. The way you get rid of those abortions is again make it both respectable and economically feasible for people to marry and start families in their late teens and early twenties as it was a hundred years ago.
Aside from all of that there actually is a question of the effect of Roe/Wade on crime and, worse, on the national percentage of demoKKKrats. Until somebody makes a study of that one, you have to assume that without Roe/Wade, it might have been twenty years since anybody other than a DemoKKKrat ever won any sort of an election in America.
I'm not trying to poop parties or be a devil's advocate here, just stating the obvious. Religion is the study of how the world ought to be; economics is the study of how the world actually is, and the world we live in is a hard one.
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