RE: New Clinton email controversy
November 1, 2016 at 12:05 pm
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2016 at 12:06 pm by Aroura.)
Funny how the Clinton "email controversy" is so big that this thread is now about abortion....
But anyway, the problem arises for people on any side of this issue that outlawing abortions does almost nothing to reduce them. It does nothing to save lives, and only risks more lives. This is a fact.
If you wish women to have less abortions, the answer is more access to birth control, especially for poorer people, and more education. These are the only methods that are proven to reduce abortions.
So, if you are pro-life, stop wasting your time trying to ban abortions. Much like banning drugs, it just drives the the service into the black market, but does not reduce rates of unwanted behavior. Start spending time making access to Planned Parenthoood and other women's health clinics GREATER, so more women don't have unwanted pregnancies in the first place. If you make abortions illegal, it also makes it so less women have access to to education and birth control and DRIVES ABORTION RATES UP.
The places with the highest rates of unwanted pregnancy and abortion are the places where it is the most difficult to access (except for eastern europe, where birth control is illegal but abortion is not, what an effed up place!!).
I know it seems counter-intuitive, but a lot of things work this way. Make them illegal, and they get worse. Bring them into the light and educate people and help PREVENT the problem in the first place.
But anyway, the problem arises for people on any side of this issue that outlawing abortions does almost nothing to reduce them. It does nothing to save lives, and only risks more lives. This is a fact.
If you wish women to have less abortions, the answer is more access to birth control, especially for poorer people, and more education. These are the only methods that are proven to reduce abortions.
So, if you are pro-life, stop wasting your time trying to ban abortions. Much like banning drugs, it just drives the the service into the black market, but does not reduce rates of unwanted behavior. Start spending time making access to Planned Parenthoood and other women's health clinics GREATER, so more women don't have unwanted pregnancies in the first place. If you make abortions illegal, it also makes it so less women have access to to education and birth control and DRIVES ABORTION RATES UP.
The places with the highest rates of unwanted pregnancy and abortion are the places where it is the most difficult to access (except for eastern europe, where birth control is illegal but abortion is not, what an effed up place!!).
I know it seems counter-intuitive, but a lot of things work this way. Make them illegal, and they get worse. Bring them into the light and educate people and help PREVENT the problem in the first place.
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― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead