01-27-2017, 01:10 PM
(01-27-2017, 10:39 AM)michaelsean Wrote: I'm not trying to be dickish here, but I've never understood why pro-choice people care about the number of abortions. If to them it really is just a clump of cells, and I believe they believe that, who cares?
It's not just a clump of cells to everyone that is pro-choice. There are many pro-choice people that believe abortion to be morally wrong for a number of reasons, including religious ones, that even go so far as to believe life begins at conception. However, they don't believe it is the government's place to make that call. Even those that may not see a blastocyst or an embryo as a human life can want to reduce abortions. A terminated pregnancy, whether voluntary or not, carries with it complications and risks for potential trauma that are not just physical.
As a society, it is better for us to work at proactively reducing unwanted pregnancies altogether because it can reduce the burden on welfare programs, reduce the number or abortions, reduce the number of foster children in the system, and a whole host of other issues. Simply put, better availability to reproductive health care and education on the issues can help reduce the number and need for a lot of things the conservative agenda tends to be against.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
