According to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, half of all abortions are because no birth control was used.
None.
Another fifth are due to the improper or inconsistent use of birth control.
Instead of being pro-murder, the Left should be pushing birth control as hard as possible.
I agree entirely. I also know you can't change human nature.
Told this story before, but when I was in the service, there was this young woman who was engaged to a fellow NCO. This was not a stupid woman. She was college educated. It wasn't for a lack of "values". She was devout Catholic, brought up in a very traditional Asian-American household. The problem is her boyfriend was an asshole (which is why I stopped being friends with him.)
So after stringing her along for years with promises of marriage, she decided for whatever reason to stop taking her birth control. I personally think it was because she wanted to force the marriage issue, but what she claimed was the hormones were making her moody. Well, her boyfriend, in an act of douchebaggery, told her that not only wasn't he going to marry her, but he didn't consider them engaged anymore. So she had an abortion because she didn't want her parents to know she wasn't still a virgin at 22.
Then a year later, she hooked up with the same guy and the same thing happened.
How are you going to legislate that?
I think this is a middle ground upon which the vast majority of Americans can meet, instead of allowing the extremists to dominate the conversation.
Her body. Her choice. that's not an extreme position, it's a pragmatic one.
At the end of the day, pregnancy is a commitment! You really can't impose it.
Here's a crazy idea. How about anyone with a Y Chromosome, myself included, just butt out of the conversation and let women work it out for themselves. Because most of this debate is men telling women what to do with their bodies.
And let me tell you why I don't buy the Left's arguments about "choice". If I crushed an unborn sea turtle's eggs, the Left would come after me with pitchforks and torches.
"It's just a blob of tissue! It's not a sea turtle!"
And here's where you get into the illogical metaphor. Sea Turtles are protected because they are an endangered species. It is also illegal to screw with certain bird's nests, even if the birds don't have eggs in them. I frankly thinks some of these laws are goofy. It's also illegal to possess eagle feathers, even if they came off the Eagle naturally.
Human beings aren't endangered... in fact, we are straining the ecosystem by manipulating it to our needs.