catzmeow
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Excellent reality check by David Frumm:
Let's get real about abortions - CNN.com
So, you say you're anti-abortion. What are you willing to do (or have government do, on your behalf) to reduce unwanted pregnancies?
Let's get real about abortions - CNN.com
Abortion is a product of poverty and maternal distress.
A woman who enjoys the most emotional and financial security and who has chosen the timing of her pregnancy will not choose abortion, even when abortion laws are liberal. A woman who is dominated, who is poor and who fears bearing the child is likely to find an abortion, even where abortion is restricted, as it was across the United States before 1965.
So maybe at the next candidates' debate, a journalist will deflect the discussion away from "what if" and instead ask this:
"Rather than tell us what you'd like to ban, tell us please what you think government should do to support more happy and healthy childbearing, to reduce unwanted pregnancies and to alleviate the economic anxieties of mothers-to-be?"
So, you say you're anti-abortion. What are you willing to do (or have government do, on your behalf) to reduce unwanted pregnancies?