You just criticized me for not wanting to give money to the poor and here you are saying the exact same thing.
The difference is, you want to force them to have babies they never wanted.
Actually I don't. I don't like the idea of forcing women to have abortions and I don't necessarily agree with repealing Roe vs. Wade. I just wish more women (and men) exercised more personal responsibility and good judgment.
t's clear to me now that you don't give a shit about a woman having choice, you just prefer they choose abortion so you don't have to pay for their welfare and food stamps.
You can't have it both ways. If you give women the option to choose abortion or giving birth, you can't very well complain if they choose to give birth. What you have right now is exactly what you and Norma McCorvey (A.K.A. Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade) wanted: women having choice. The inevitable result of their having that choice is that some are going to choose to give birth, even if they can ill afford to raise a child.
Stop with the shithouse lawyer tactics, buddy.
None of what I said is untrue.
What we have right now is rich white women having abortions, but poor women of color often can't afford them.
Then how do you account for the fact that blacks and Hispanics have abortions out of proportion to their population numbers? The 2010 census puts blacks at 12.6% of the population, Hispanics at 16.3% and whites at 72.4%. Yet blacks account for 28% of abortions and Hispanics account for 25% while whites account for 39%.
Percentage wise, black and Hispanic abortions far outnumber white abortions. This means that if you have three communities of a hundred women each, where one community is all white, one is all black and one is all Hispanic, the white community will have about 50 to 60 abortions, the black community: 210 abortions and the Hispanic community: 110 abortions. This in turn means that blacks are having abortions at more than twice their population numbers, i.e., all the women in the black community will have two abortions and ten will have three.
So it appears that if women of color can't afford abortions, they're managing to have them anyway at or near the rate of over twice their numbers.
What we should do is have the government fund both abortions and cradle to grave benefits.
What we should do is have the government fund programs and initiatives to inform and educate young people on sex and the potential consequences, hardships and pitfalls of unwanted pregnancies. They need to know how much more difficult it is to achieve what they want in life while having to care for a child.
This is what they do in France, and funny thing, they have an abortion rate half per capita of what we have.
France doesn't have fewer abortions because the government is paying for them, they have fewer abortions because their young women are more informed, educated and aware.
Now, if you wingnuts had your way, we'd be like the Philippines... Abortion is "illegal", but they have more per capita than we have. They have 3 million abandoned children. But they be Right With Jesus, and that's the important thing. That and Grinding ******* poverty.
You have it all bass ackwards. Excessive pregnancies and abortions to not cause poverty, it is
because of poverty. If one has or perceives fewer opportunities to achieve success and make something of oneself, there's not much more to life than working menial jobs, having children and suckling off the government teat.
So all of your pseudo-morality arguments about women having choice and people like me not caring about poor children are just props and smokescreen to disguise the fact that you don't want to pay for their mistakes any more than I do. And whereas I prefer they just use contraception to avoid getting pregnant in the first place, you prefer they choose abortion to erase the mistake already made.
No, guy, I realize that contraception is imperfect. The pills **** with women's emotional states. The rubbers are uncomfortable. IUD's have health risks. And sometimes, and I know you don't get this, people just get caught up in the heat of the moment and have sex.
Well that's just tough shit, isn't it? I can't do anything about any of these things so what does any of it have to do with me or society?
When it comes to having sex, one has three choices: 1) Use protection. 2) Abstain or 3) Have unprotected sex and risk pregnancy. None of these choices taken by someone else other than myself or my partner has anything to do with me and is not my responsibility or society's. It's also not my responsibility if they use protection and it fails. Every condom package and contraceptive warns that condoms are not always 100% effective and everyone knows this anyway.
Abortion is exactly what it is... another form of birth control. Which I'm just fine with.
Birth control, by definition, is preventing conception. Killing the child after the fact is nothing more than a cheap and easy way to erase a mistake.