(January 19, 2019 at 1:03 pm)Yonadav Wrote:(January 19, 2019 at 12:54 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Abortion should always remain the right of the female alone. Life is a crap shoot, and for every sperm that ends making it to the egg, there are millions more that don't. And for all the pregnancies that end up in adulthood, there are plenty of monsters that are produced in humanity. The key to a stable and free society isn't outlawing abortion, but good economic policies It does no good to bring a child into the world if they are abused or raised in poverty.
Most of the monsters we think of in human history were abused as children. Hitller's dad and Stalin's dad were authoritarians and that mental abuse alone can cause someone to grow up to abuse, and it is worse when that abusive person gets a high level of power.
Personally, I have never been convinced that there is any such thing as reproductive rights. Just because you can have a baby doesn't mean that you have a right to have a baby. A lot of people say that the right to have a baby follows from the ability to have a baby. I disagree. I don't think that it follows. The right to do a thing never follows from the ability to do a thing, except for apparently in this one matter. That's a bit odd.
Good thing in a free society you don't get to decide for everyone else what our laws are. Places where only one sect of society controls everything are closed authoritarian states. Go live in one, say North Korea or Iran or Saudi Arabia then come back here and complain about other's lives you have no say in.
Nobody is saying it is a child's fault what class or economic status they are born into. It is is simply better to address economics and education than to make abortion a social issue when it is a personal choice.
