04-20-2023, 10:41 AM
(04-19-2023, 10:43 PM)guyofthetiger Wrote: What about the life of the baby created by rape? I guess some people think it is worthless. There have been women who gave birth to a baby after being raped. All life should be valued. Some people can forgive horrible events.
Women have CHOSEN to give birth after rape. It shouldn't be up to anyone else to decide what she can physically, mentally, and financially handle.
You would think that pro-birthers consider life valuable but no. They are willing to sacrifice the life or health of the mother for the child. They are willing to sacrifice a woman's living children for her unborn one. There is far more to being pro-life than simply being pro-birth
You will never ever legislate abortion out of existence. They will legislate away access to safe abortion. They will prevent access to abortion by poor women If you want to prevent abortion then address the issues that lead to that choice. Something that these state legislators and Congressmen refuse to do
1) Let's start off by preventing pregnancy...comprehensive sex education starting early. If a 10 year can get pregnant a 10 year needs to know how and why it happens in the first place and how to prevent it. Multiple studies show that the more informed a young person (boys and girls) is about sex the more likely they are to wait and to use birth control. Teaching abstinence-only DOES NOT WORK. I used to run a women's healthcare message board. The lack of knowledge about sex from young women is frightening.
2) Easy and affordable access to a variety of birth control methods...with or without parental permission. I'm sorry conservative Christian parents but your kids proudly wearing their chastity rings are having sex. Those girls are the most likely to have an abortion without parental knowledge
3) Comprehensive medical care including mental health
4) living wages
5) a real food safety net
6) affordable and safe housing
7) paid parental leave
8) affordable and accessible childcare available regardless of what shift the parent works
9) real support for families with disabled children
10) protect women from their rapist's involvement in their or child's life
11) education and job training assistance
additionally
1) massive research is needed into preventing pregnancy complications that kill women every day
2) massive research is needed into anomalies that cause congenital disabilities in the child.
Keep in mind even with everything in place that the need for abortion will still exist. Women will still experience life-threatening complications that require termination of the pregnancy. And the woman shouldn't have to wait until they are on their deathbed to do so. Fetuses will still have developmental problems that are incompatible with life. No woman should be forced to carry a pregnancy that will end with the baby living in pain for only minutes or days.
Oh, and being pro-death penalty is incompatible with being pro-life. Either life is valued or it is not.
It is easy to be pro-birth....it is much harder to be truly pro-life
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