I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that it's absurd to boil down a system of government to this one issue, and I agree with you, but that's their prerogative.
Alas, I am here to broker a deal. I would be willing to compromise on the abortion debate.
1. Stop fighting attempts to have sex education in schools.The idea that the Republican Majority has been so apoplectic about abortion while at the same time doing everything they can to kill any form of sex education in schools tells me that this is more about politics than life. It seems to me that if it were really about life, then anything that would reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies would be something to celebrate.
2. Stop trying to kill Head Start and School Lunch Programs.Women who finds themselves unexpectedly in the role of mother often need assistance. Head Start works. School Lunch programs are necessary. The more we can do to assure success in education, the better off society will be as a whole.
3. Universal Health CarePrenatal Care. Dental Care. Prescription Drugs. Making sure that people know that these service are available to their children will take so much of the struggle out of raising children. Not to mention, that with universal health care every woman in this country could afford to go to the doctor and be on birth control is she so chose.
4. End your opposition to gay adoption.If abortion is the only thing you care about, then adoption is preferable. A home with two loving parents is preferable to being aborted, right? The absurd notion that you will condemn abortion as a "holocaust of the unborn" yet you oppose letting responsible loving potential parents adopt children is disgustingly hypocritical.
Let's just start there. Let's work together to end abortion. If abortion is the great evil that is you claim it is... If this issue is about saving the "lives" of these fetuses, then surely you will be willing to accept this deal...
If not, abortion is just a pawn in your political game, and I am getting very tired of playing.
Your move, fundies.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
I completely agree. Why is it that fundamentalists care so much about the fetus, but do nothing for the child once it is born?
ReplyDeleteHere's my suggestion: Put your money where your mouth is: adopt an unwanted baby.
But seriously, the way to stop abortions is not to outlaw it. The way to stop abortions is to stop unwanted preganancy. You can't do that by covering your ears and eyes and hoping the kids don't have sex. You can't do that by denying birth control to those who can't go to the doctor to get the perscription. You can only do that by educating people on safe sex and providing them with a plethora of birth control options.
And you also have to show compassion for those who choose to keep an unwanted baby by providing them with assitance.
People want to talk about adoption being an option, but with a great deal of unwanted pregnancies coming from poverty-stricken urban areas with high percentages of minorities, adoption may not be as easy as some think. It's unfortunate and horribly racist, but white babies are adopted almost immediately. Minorities, racially mixed, and seriously handicapped infants are very difficult to place and between 20,000 and 60,000 minority or racially mixed children are currently in need of an adoptive home according to Committee on Adoptions and Dependent Care of the American Academy of Pediatrics at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/48/2/325
So again I say, put your money where your mouth is and adopt an unwanted child. Otherwise, don't judge women who face the choice of abortion or bringing a child into a life that statistically breeds higher rates of crime, mortality, and abuse.
-The Hippy's Wife :)
What are you gonna do? I mean, the U.S. senators these people elected just, both of them, voted in favor of torture (of innocent people, no less). And they did so against a huge tide.
ReplyDeleteTouche.
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