America 1 wrote:
There are many choices to prevent.
They have a choice and if that choice results in pregnancy,
why is it not their responsibility to pay for the abortion?
So is your only concern for abortion is who pays for it? I have only know two women who have had an abortion and in both instances they paid for their own. In those instances my involvement was helping their boyfriend pay for it. One was a premarital with the boyfriend. The other was caused by a third party and the boyfriend collected some of the funds from the other guy. In both instances, I was helping a friend.
I think in many instances, some women who have repeat abortions it is because they know they can't afford to take care of the baby. I think when they rely on charity to get an abortion it is probably in the governments financial interests to accommodate the sbortion in the long run.
If a child grows up with only one non involved parent (or even two non involved parents, for that mstter) the government will likely spend more money on the dependent in later years than paying for the cost of an abortion today.
In my mind. It shouldn't be just a cost consideration. Part of it is a question of quality of life issue.
I'm not sure I see it as murder. The philosophical question is when does life begin. I personally think it's at birth. But my mind isn't closed to other arguments, particularly at conception.
The real point in my mind is if it is murder. I don't think it is. But, let's assume that it is. Governments have been killing people over the whole millennium. Any person who has ever advocated for going to war is guilty of advocating for murder. That's what war is. On its simplest element.
Likewise, if you advocated for capital punishment, you have advocated for murder. In my mind, if you are anti abortion because it is murder, then if you ever supported a war or capital punishment, your argument is compleyely diluted and meaningless. If you have been anti war each and every time it has come up, snd you have been anti capital punishment from day one, no matter what the person has done, then I have a great respect for your anti abortion position.
Since the majority of Americsns are in favor if allowing Rowe v Wade as the law of the land i find it unconscionable that the two minority elected presidentswill have put 4 conservative justices on the bench, maybe 5. That will be a true injustice. That is the minority controlling the majority. That is not a good thing in the long term for the US.
Those are my thoughts on abortion.