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Maybe that rate of abortion, as it was in Soviet countries, is due to the lack of contraception and family planning in the US. That is tied to the structure of
by rswail 4y ago
Maybe that rate of abortion, as it was in Soviet countries, is due to the lack of contraception and family planning in the US. That is tied to the structure of the health system.
Why is it that people that want to outlaw abortion, and are willing to pay for the policing and prosecution resources necessary to enforce that law aren't willing to invest the same amount into contraception that would have a similar effect.
Is it better to clean up after an oil spill, or ensure that the spill doesn't happen in the first place?
- ModernMech 4y agoThe logic that a fetus is a person comes from the inevitability of birth starting at conception — as long as no one interferes, a human person will eventually be born. Therefore, ending the pregnancy early means that person will never be born, so it’s tantamount to killing a newborn baby. Once you accept a fetus is a person, this same logic can also be extended to argue that life starts at ejaculation; impeding sperm from fertilizing an egg prevents the birth of a person, and is therefore tantamount to murder the same way abortion is. It’s much more a tenuous an argument, which is why it’s only made by the most extreme people. But I guess that explains why Clarence Thomas is pushing to make contraception illegal today.
- PsylentKnight 4y ago> Why is it... Because it's more exciting to punish Bad People for doing Bad Things than it is to create systems where the Bad People don't want or need to do Bad Things as much.