Quote:I don't think you are giving the anti-abortion people credit for sincerity.   I think they sincerely believe that life starts at conception, and killing a living fetus is basically murdering a child.   To ask them to go away and stop arguing just because abortion has been legal for many years, is asking way too much. 

 

I think the only way to resolve this issue is to eliminate unwanted pregnancies as much as possible.  Give all women free birth control.  Good God, in this day and age, surely any woman can avoid becoming pregnant if she wants to, and IF she is also given the means to avoid it. 

 

Eliminating unwanted pregnancies would almost eliminate abortion.  At that point, make it legal or illegal, whatever you want.  But there's really no excuse for millions of abortions in this day and age when we have the means to prevent pregancy. 

 

A couple of points regarding this.

 

First of all, to eliminate unwanted pregnancies as much as possible.  Education and abstinence is a first line of defense.  The left seems to be all about "sex education" except when the idea of abstaining is taught as a good option.

 

Second, why "give away" birth control?  Who exactly is going to pay for that?  Why should it be up to me as a taxpayer to pay for some college chick's birth control that want's to "hook up" whenever she wants?  My feeling is, if she is "woman enough" to do the deed she should be responsible enough to take care of her body.  After all, we don't want government to tell a woman what she can and can't do with her body right?

 

Finally, as the old saying goes, "it takes two to tango".  What about the male in this case?  Should we give males free birth control as well?  Free anything just makes a person lazy.  As a young high school kid, I personally knew how to use a condom, and on my limited high school kid "income" I was able to afford it.

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