(December 9, 2013 at 6:38 am)Lion IRC Wrote:(December 9, 2013 at 6:13 am)Esquilax Wrote: Lion, have you ever, even once, ever responded to someone without making it a strawman?
I'm attacking supporters of abortion-on-demand.
Now, in order for you to claim that you are the victim of a straw man attack, you would need to show that you DON'T support the position I'm attacking.
Feel free to state your true position whenever you are ready.
You make it sound like you can just walk up and demand an abortion and it all goes through willy-nilly.
It's in no way that simplistic. There is a large amount of emotional and physical support that is required as well.
I don't think any woman would go through with an abortion and not care one iota about it.
But as to all the un-wanted children, there are loads of them in orphanages throughout the world. I don't see the more extreme religious people in the world calling for attacks on abortion clinics calling for more funding and support of state structures that support these orphans, or for measures that would allow more orphans to find a loving family (eg. homosexual adoptions).
If religious sects such as the RCC taught the proper use of contraception, and didn't treat sex as a taboo, then maybe, just maybe, there'd be fewer unwanted children in the world.
And let's not forget that one of the main reasons abortion was legalised (or, rather, decriminalised) was that women were still having them regardless. Regulating and giving proper support to the industry to enforce greater standards was the only logical decision to make. And it stands to the test of logic and reason to this day.
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