To: GovernmentShrinker
Me:
What no one allows for is the fact that if a woman doesn't want children, she can choose not to get pregnant in the first place. You: Not in places like Ethiopia
So abortion's okay for population control? Okay, but only in third world countries?
I'm not putting words in your mouth, I don't understand the point of your comment to me.
BTW, Planned Parenthood is international. Why can't we get the focus on worldwide 'reproductive health' to be on preventing unwanted pregnancies in the first place?
To: MIsunshine
My point was to refute the comment you made. It's a concept that pretty much holds true in developed, civilized countries, but not in the third world. We should make a high priority of changing that, but in the meantime, it's cruel slap in the faces of abused and oppressed women to claim that they had a choice as to whether or not they got pregnant in the first place. In many of these countries, husbands murder their wives (often just adolescents) with impunity if they don't comply in every way with the husbands' demands. Ending abortion shouldn't be a higher priority than ending that state of affairs.
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