Abortion obviously hasn't been the amazing panacea it was supposed to have been because we still have a lot of unwed, single mothers and various other calamities proponents of its legalization thought it would end. If you want to focus on the problems that children are having, that makes perfect sense, but abortion has done nothing to alleviate any of those problems. Just as you want to address...or for the purposes of making people that disagree with you sound horrible are at least are paying lip service to...the problems of childhood poverty, neglect, and abuse, there are others who want to highlight the things that they think are wrong about abortion as its currently practiced.
I know the idea that some people might be concerned about both those things, maybe even equally concerned, seems ludicrous to you, but since I know this is just one of your typical "come into the thread and shit it up with some wise-ass comments that add nothing to the conversation and disappear" posts, Mayo, I suppose it hardly merits discussion.
I just know that your oh-so-clever sarcasm would be aimed in an entirely different direction if government agencies failed to perform with due diligence and let some other industry/facility off-the-hook by not inspecting them or dealing with their infractions even if they performed the inspections, and we'd be treated to some diatribe about how special interests are yada-yada-yada. You just don't care in this case because this is a special interest with which you share common cause.
I believe abortion needs to be legal. Not because it's right, or even good, but because the alternative is a greater evil. That doesn't mean that I believe you should be able to do the blend-and-suck at any point during a pregnancy, or that a fetus is a "parasite" (great dehumanization language, right there) or clump of cells, or that a delivered baby, no matter how premature, should be butchered on the operating table because its mother doesn't want it. I don't think a woman should be forced to carry her rapist's baby, but I frown on the sort of people who have learned so little from their experiences that they've had
multiple abortions.
But thanks for proving the actual point of the thread, which is that we've polarized ourselves to the point where the distinctions don't matter and the extremists define our terms for us. I guess you managed to contribute something despite yourself.
Superchat wrote:
Don't forget the parasites that get on their knees for priests.
FTFY, wouldn't want to forget your double-speak.
Your Pal,
Jubber