Nobody "likes" abortion, but we need it to remain freely available. The problem is too many idiots use it as their primary form of birth control. And too many opposed to it go on a crusade to end it when they don't actually give a shit about those unwanted children after they are born.
Children having children they aren't ready for is one of the big problem any society has to deal with. Defunding or banning abortion and telling women to cross their legs is not a realistic answer. Biden can be against federal funding of abortion, but anyone who really wants to see fewer abortions performed better be ready to fund the crap out of realistic alternatives.
We need more sex ed with a greater emphasis on birth control and reproductive responsibility. And the idea of abstinence only sex ed needs to be violently kicked to the curb. The penalty for too much unprotected sex is felt by all of society, so fuck your religious feels.
And even then, abortion still needs to remain available, funded and offered to women who need them without any stigma attached. We simply help more young men and women learn how to avoid needing one.
EDIT: I'm neither Dem nor Republican nor a member of any political party. I've always felt the Dems were generally more reasonable than the Republicans by a fair stretch. Let the Republicans go on anti-abortion crusades to appease their religious idiot base, but the Democrats shouldn't let themselves be pulled down into this fight so long as the federal courts continue to uphold Roe v. Wade.
Democrats and every other reasonable person should absolutely stand against this anti-abortion march backwards, but at the same time not let the Republicans mire us in this debate. As someone else said, win the courts and this is a moot point.
qfmft. proper education about sex, contraceptives, and easy access to the latter would dranatically reduce the number of abortions. but somehow that argument fails to stick with lots of religious folks :hmm:
I don't know the % of abortions that are due to careless birth control. I'd like to think the best of women, and overall it's an exceedingly rare choice.
Otoh, from personal experience, I know of two women that considered abortion because of dumb BC methods (basically lack there of) and this was plan B.
One was an in-law, and a far left hippy dippy type (yoga teacher, vegan, women's college degree, occasional lesbian, the whole 9 yards...)
She came up with some bullshit rhythm method where she took the temperature of her hooha to track ovulation.
Convinced my family member of the viability of this system, whom she just started dating, and went unprotected. Mind you he's actually an accomplished biological scientist, more than well educated on the matter, but for some reason agreed. P***y has a powerful and idiotic effect on some people...
Well... It worked about as well as you would expect and within the first month she was pregnant. Fing hell.
So now they've been dating for weeks and now they were contemplating getting married or her having an abortion. Being the standup, but foolish, family man type, he pushed for marriage and they kept the kid (and added a few more.)
Of course the marriage was based on BS, she eventually left him for a woman as she wanted to go back to being a lesbian... But that's a whole other story.
Regardless, if they had the abortion I'd have one less member of my family, for no good reason other than stupidity.
Hard to see the kid and know how close he came to being wiped out. He doesn't know and hope he never does.
Abortion is a nasty business, but overall I choose to trust women to make their own decisions and know there are lots of gut wrenching stories out there I'm glad I never needed to face.
However I am not naive in knowing some abortions are the result of irresponsibility of adults, and why some see the issue in such a light. I could never respect that woman afterwards, and she only considered but never went through with it.
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