Quote:To characterize my position as EXTREME is asinine when the alternative that you present is the inane SLAUGHTER of over 70 million people.  Within the next 20 years we will eclipse the amount of people that were killed in all wars since the dawn of the 20th century, THAT'S EXTREME.  Its the advocates of that policy that should have to TREAD CAREFULLY.  And more importantly if you want to advocate for that position then by all means stand up and be proud because if you are going to sit here and stand behind half a percent of the millions slaughtered as the reason to kill off the other 99.5% then you should take a minute to fully think about what that means.  

I wouldn't call your position as extreme as others I've seen (Google "abortion should be punishable by death"), but I still think you skew far to one side without respect to the other. In your mind, abortion is murder. That's fine, that's all well and good, but in the mind of someone else--and again, this is not necessarily my opinion...I know better than to put my feelings on it out there--the organism is not a human being until term, or until it's able to survive outside the womb, or in one of the most ridiculous arguments I've seen, until it's self-aware. How does one find out at what point a fetus is self-aware? Ask it?

 

I did read your entire post, and it is slanted to the direction you agree with, which is fine and to be expected. The problem is that you're not going to change any hearts or minds by calling it "SLAUGHTER" in all caps. You're just going to further galvanize the pro-choice crowd against you, and make the whole mess worse. That's the problem with abortion debates, as I said earlier. No one's going to change their minds. We're just going to sit around yelling at each other about whether it's "SLAUGHTER" or "a woman's right", and at the end of the day the pro-choice bunch is going to sit back and smirk about how intellectually superior they are while the anti-abortion crowd is going to sit back and smirk about how morally superior they are.

 

Quote:There's a very easy way to eliminate abortion all together.  I didn't sleep with anyone until I was married.  Someone else can't do the same? 

 

Oh that's the dirty word... Abstinance.  No, it's the REALLY dirty word.  Responsibility. 

1. Married people have abortions, too.

 

2. Preaching abstinence until marriage only serves to increase the percentage of teenagers having sex. Studies have been done. I'm sure you can find one if you're so inclined. Beyond that, the age of marriage is progressively getting later and later (29 for men, 27 for women, page 3) while the age of sexual maturity remains a biological constant. By age 44, 95% of Americans have had premarital sex (and another 4% are lying, imo). If you really think that Tebow is being honest when he claims that a multi-millionaire like himself in his late 20's is still a virgin, I've got some oceanfront land to sell you--in Kansas. There are lots of good ways to decrease abortion, and one of the best is educating people who are about to start having sex on ways to do so safely and minimize the chances of becoming pregnant. Offering adoption as an option to pregnant teenagers, or being supportive if they express a desire to keep the baby are also ways to reduce abortion. When you throw solutions like that out there, you can realistically and reasonably reduce abortions. When you post about "SLAUGHTER" of 70 million people in all caps, you're not solving anything. You're just ticking people off and further alienating them from your point of view.

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