(November 1, 2016 at 7:13 pm)Aroura Wrote:(November 1, 2016 at 12:44 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I can actually agree that simply outlawing abortion isn't the answer, and the article I posted touched on that as well. What we need to do is work towards building a culture that recognizes the value of all human life in all its stages... so that abortion becomes unthinkable to the vast majority of people. And Trump is absolutely not the guy who promotes this kind of respect for humanity. I do think abortion should be illegal, but I think it needs to get to that point in the right way. In a way that involves a changing of attitude towards life.
Creating a culture of life is a lovely idea, as if we arent striving for that already, but do you realize people who believe that human life start at conception are not actually less likely to have an abortion? People do not chose abortion because they don't care, they chose it because they are desperate.
We currently live in a world where violence is less tolerated than at any other time before us. If that alone were the answer, we would see rates dropping in relation, but we don't. Abortion rates only drop in relation to birth control access, health care access, and education. It is still legal federally, and our rates continue to drop. Yay!
You say you agree that simply outlawing it isn't the answer, but I'm trying to explain how it is never the answer. It might succeed in punishing many people, but it would not succeed in saving the lives of unborn children.
We need to remove the causes, the desperate situations. Outlawing it does nothing to that end, it is punitive only.
This. ^^^
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