The Young Turks

Vikingmother,

Clearly you have more than a passing interest and investment in this issue.  You seem to be a person who puts your money where your mouth is, a lot more than I can say for many pro-life champions.

There is a common ground between people who want abortions made illegal and those who think it should remain legal as option.  That common ground is that both groups would almost certainly agree that the rarer abortion is, the better.  Why not work toward this end, this common ground, instead of arguing for a total ban?  Work toward educating people on preventing unwanted pregnancies and just maybe abortion would eventually become rare enough that it wouldn't be an issue anymore.  We don't arm young people with good information.  The issue isn't black or white, it's ignorance or education.  There is a reachable goal somewhere between the exremes of unlimited abortions and throwing people in prison for them.

"Guess where 70% of the abortion clinics are located?" In poor neighborhoods where people can't afford health care much less birth control--naturally--should be obvious.

The antichoice/antiabortion people mean well, but have the issue backwards. The problem isn't that there are too many abortions--the problem is that there are too many unwanted pregnancies.

It's a health care issue. By demonizing those of us who think that women should have full control of their own bodies, it's counterproductive. So, you want fewer abortions? Then support universal single-payer health care that's not dependent on employers. It doesn't have to be a government program, although it will be cheaper and more efficient if the government rather than private insurance companies run the program--private costs $20 per $100 insurance premium, public costs $5 per $100 premium. Public/private partnerships work OK, as in France, the country that has been number 1 in health care for several years.

It's an employment issue. It's an education issue. People who can barely afford to put food on the table often don't have the education level to get a good job, and to make reasoned health care decisions. 

Aborting a blastocycst or embryo is hardly murder, especially considering how many are destroyed in the natural course of a woman's life, and at invitro fertilization clinics. That is purely an individual and/or religious interpretation and a personal decision. There may be different considerations with a 30 week old fetus. However, a woman who is prohibited from deciding whether she will continue with a pregnancy is no better than a slave. Worse, those who lobby or legislate to prevent women from getting access to effective birth control and adequate health care are morally repugnant and reprehensible.

The 'African-American' blastocysts/embryos/fetuses that were aborted are the result of poor health care, not the availability of legal affordable abortions. Few women would choose abortion as their primary means of birth control. Banning abortions will NOT prevent abortions--never did, except in some fantasy world where there are no coat hangers or ergotrate or violent partners.