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You're way too sensible for this forum. The extremists will just call you a bunch of nasty names and then go back to what they were doing.

BTW, we can't require dispensing of information about the possible adverse effects of abortion, without also requiring dispensing of information about the possible adverse effects of having a baby you don't want and/or can't afford to raise. There are plenty of the latter, the worst of which is the tendency of the mother to make an emotion-based decision to keep the baby, even though she's obviously unequipped to do so, and then after a year or two or four of serious neglect or worse (all taxpayer-subsidized), the now-unadoptable child is carted off by CPS, to grow up in a series of horrific foster homes and emerge into society as a permanently damaged and hopelessly dysfunctional adult, with no job or job skills, no family attachments, and no friends except the street gangsters and meth-heads. This individual will then promptly begin reproducing, and the cycle perpetuates and expands itself.

"without also requiring dispensing of information about the possible adverse effects of having a baby you don't want and/or can't afford to raise"

And also, the information on giving the child up for adoption, which would solve those two issues.

I would suggest you might like this thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/924290/posts

. There are plenty of the latter, the worst of which is the tendency of the mother to make an emotion-based decision to keep the baby, even though she's obviously unequipped to do so

Ah, so basically you don't believe that many women can handle the concept of rights and responsibility, so let's just have them kill the baby so society might not be exposed to the consequences of that risk.

That sounds just like the logic used by the drug warriors.

You're way too sensible for this forum. The extremists will just call you a bunch of nasty names and then go back to what they were doing.

Lol, thanks.

BTW, we can't require dispensing of information about the possible adverse effects of abortion, without also requiring dispensing of information about the possible adverse effects of having a baby you don't want and/or can't afford to raise. There are plenty of the latter...

Definitely. Although I haven't talked about it much in this thread, I'm a big proponent of making adoption easy to do. Adoption should feature very, very prominently on the list of choices that a woman with an unwanted pregnancy has access to. And we should pass laws making adoption easier, both for a woman having a baby, and for couples wanting to adopt.

BTW, we can't require dispensing of information about the possible adverse effects of abortion, without also requiring dispensing of information about the possible adverse effects of having a baby you don't want and/or can't afford to raise.

Do you really want to put people in the business of anticipating the future quality of someone else's life and then making decisions about whether they get to live or die based on that?

"we can't require dispensing of information about the possible adverse effects of abortion, without also requiring dispensing of information about the possible adverse effects of having a baby you don't want and/or can't afford to raise."

At the risk of sounding overly simplistic, shouldn't that second discussion be held PRIOR to becoming pregnant? Why must the obvious be so convoluted?