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Originally Posted by glowbelly
sorry, guys. you can have your opinion and you can yell at me until you're blue in the face about the life growing inside my belly and how horrible abortion is, but you will never, ever be pregnant and know what it's like to COMPLETELY LOSE YOURSELF AND YOUR BODY for the rest of your life.
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I think this is absolute crap. Sorry, ladies.
Giving grants to Planned Parenthood is actually providing support to the largest purveyor of abortion in the world. I agree with funding for abtsinence programs of course,but funding the education of kids about artificial contraception is not going to help. Artificial contraception actually leads to more abortions. Many of the types of contraception are themselves abortifacient,e.g. the low dose pill and IUD both allow fertililization but make the uterus hostile to implantation. They also foster a more cavalier and more casual attitude towards sex, which is not part of God's plan for society.
Those are the words of a relative of mine. She has in fact had five babies. So glow, by your math, her 5 to your 1 makes her the rightest.
This is absurd, and it trivializes the issue. I'm sorry, but I think this issue is about more than the nine months of pregnancy. We want men t take responsibility and to be fathers when they get a woman pregnant, yet we cultivate an attitude in society that those same men A. ultimately have no say in the matter, and B. have sevral levels of escape from their mistake. This encourages their shitty behavior, and in my opinion, leaves it as the "mother's problem."
If we allow men to act like alley cats, constantly providn them with an escape hatch, then they will continue to act that way.
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this may come as a surprise to most of you, but i don't think abortions are a good thing. i'm pretty sure that i'm in line with kevin here, save for one thing: i'm pro-choice. i do, however, think that we (society) need to work towards a day where abortion doesn't have to exist. i'm not quite sure how that should happen, but banning abortion outright doesn't seem like the first step here.
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This isn't surprising at all. Nobody that I know of actualy supports the actual practice of abortion, BUT thinks it is a necessary evil.
I don't think overturning Roe is going to end abortion, but I do think it was a poor ruling. It made it so Americans couldn't have any policy debate over it, and instead made it a wedge issue for petulant interest groups to use in order to raise cash.
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do want to see Roe overturned, and I don't mind seeing states addressing this issue as they see fit. However, I would rather see a more comprehensive plan to stop abortion, which in my mind would include funding social programs, making contraception readily available, and making adoption a smoother, less bureacratic process at the state level. This legislation is totally devoid of anything like that, and is simply a political move to take advantage of a conservative court. It shows no regard for real people, and shows quite clearly how the GOP in South Dakota is using the state for nothing more than ideology.