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Unique Perspective into Abortion: Crime Reducer, Pregnancy delayer, not stopper

If Rome has no principles, Rome deserves to burn.


Okay now see that's why your view, and I respect it, is diminishing among youth and on a national level and will forever continue to do so (thankfully). Most people don't think Rome (society) should burn so you and others can feel your principles are being followed. Most people aren't okay with that.

Most people care about basic logic. Not everyone is drinking the most powerful kool aid available.
 
And Henrin somehow fails to realize that laws against abortion tend to reduce the abortion rate, without actually stopping all abortions from being done. And so, after Roe vs Wade, far more abortions were done than before it.

I was just making fun of the argument that I'm constantly presented with. I wasn't really presenting any sort of argument there.

Henrin reiterates the Heinous Lie of calling unborn humans "children", instead of "children under construction, with Murphy's Law a relevant factor in the outcome". It is well-known that a lie can consist of a partial truth. This particular partial-truth lie is Heinous because it encourages extra suffering when Perfectly Natural Miscarriages happen. Shame on you!

I'm fine with what I wrote since it describes the situation.

The next mistake Henrin makes is in this: "Like it has always been the majority of the poor would not become criminals, but be law abiding citizens like everyone else." While it is certainly true that the majority of the poor are law-abiding, it also is true that the majority of criminals come from impoverished backgrounds. Therefore, logically, reducing the number of people growing up in poverty will reduce the crime rate, just as the study in the Original Post shows.

I didn't deny it, did I? How is the compromise a good one to make? We allow the woman to kill her child in order to prevent crime? There is no ethics to that position from what I can see.
 
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There is a second factor involved, that has reduced the crime rate. However, Abortion Opponents should not leap to claim that that second factor is actually the only factor, because one thing the abortion/crime-link study found, was the early period by the 5 states that legalized abortion before Roe vs Wade. Not to mention that that second factor only focuses on violent crimes, and not stuff like, say, shoplifting, that someone might do to feed excess mouths.

I see JayDubya wasted no time spouting the usual Stupid Lie, equating unborn human animals with human persons, in denial of the Scientific Facts.

And Henrin somehow fails to realize that laws against abortion tend to reduce the abortion rate, without actually stopping all abortions from being done. And so, after Roe vs Wade, far more abortions were done than before it.

Next, JayDubya reveals Great Hypocrisy, by stupidly opposing death before birth, and promoting death after birth. Because wanting to ban food stamps and other assistance has the net effect of an increased death rate among actual human persons. How is that in any way "promoting a human right to life", the primary argument JayDubya uses to oppose abortion? Meanwhile, of course, abortion only kills human animals, not human persons, despite all of JayDubya's lying claims to the contrary.

Next, Henrin makes a mistake in saying, "The problem of young girls having children is with us regardless of what we do here towards abortion." That's because the actual problem is "girls having unwanted pregnancies", and this problem is very relevant to Decisions made regarding abortion. Obviously, if unwanted unborn human animals are aborted, they cannot become children (who qualify as persons).

I will agree, however, with the first part of what Henrin wrote: "As long as food stamps and the rest exists these individuals will use it." Such policies essentially create an "ecological niche", the definition of which is, basically, "any environment in which organisms can survive and successfully reproduce". The actual solution to the social problem is to somehow assist needy persons in their survival, while preventing them from succeeding at reproduction, so long as they are being socially assisted. (Good luck with the details of that, however!)

It should be noted that sometimes there is no such thing as a "deadbeat dad", simply because, sometimes, the dad dies before a pregnancy leads to birth. A "one size fits all" policy is always stupid.

Henrin reiterates the Heinous Lie of calling unborn humans "children", instead of "children under construction, with Murphy's Law a relevant factor in the outcome". It is well-known that a lie can consist of a partial truth. This particular partial-truth lie is Heinous because it encourages extra suffering when Perfectly Natural Miscarriages happen. Shame on you!

The next mistake Henrin makes is in this: "Like it has always been the majority of the poor would not become criminals, but be law abiding citizens like everyone else." While it is certainly true that the majority of the poor are law-abiding, it also is true that the majority of criminals come from impoverished backgrounds. Therefore, logically, reducing the number of people growing up in poverty will reduce the crime rate, just as the study in the Original Post shows.

Next, JayDubya repeats Great Hypocrisy, by claiming (paraphrased) "there are situations in which Rome deserves to burn". Again this shows that JayDubya doesn't actually care so much about the lives of human persons, despite frequent claims to the contrary.

JayDubya has explained that girls and women who have abortions are "sociopaths," and so, accordingly, he wishes we now had 2 generations of 50,000,000 people who were raised by a sociopath.

When there are massive numbers of unwanted children the social destruction is known and massive - from economic collapse, the vast majority of people are impoverished and oppressed, and children are treated and raised horrifically in general. One only has to look at the entire history of China to realize that the only time the average person was anything little more than a slave was only when massive population growth was checked.

On another thread, I pointed out if every aborted infant had been born, the cost to the government would have by now exceeded $50 TRILLION dollars. And that did NOT consider that there would be a much higher percentage of severely (and therefore more costly) children with severe birth defects that are entirely cared for and paid for by the government NOR considers the millions of extra prison cells and other costs of crime to the government and general public.
 
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Pro-lifer men won't discuss any real effects of what happens if abortion is outlawed. Rather, if the topic is about the actual realities of such forced-births are raised, they will just revert to posting over and over and over and over "nothing justified killing unborn babies." After born, they don't care. For example, one of the more extreme prolifer men on this thread in the past explained he would rather be thrown into a dumpster immediately after birth than to have been aborted - the ultimate statement of indifference to what becomes of a child that was forced to be born. (You also will notice all militant prolifer's you will read are men.)

Yet is that even rational thinking? If you HAD to pick how you died, either basically instantly or across days dying of thirst and the elements alone in a dumpster, it is only pro-life sloganism that would lead anyone to pick the latter. Being born to die, being born to being abandoned and being born to be a murderer are all fully acceptable to these militant prolifer men. If you or your family are the victims? If all of society collapsed? Doesn't matter. Life ONLY matters PRIOR to birth, not after. If you read long enough, you may conclude it isn't really about abortion at all at the core, but rather about wanting total power over women as men.

You are new to the forum so get ready to read that for any and all topics about the actual effects of outlawing abortions will always be responded to by prolifer men that actual reality and effect is irrelevant to anything - and instead they will just post 10, 100, 1000 times that abortion murders unborn babies and that there is no absolutely no difference whatsoever between a single-cell zygote and a 50 year old man. Therefore, reality otherwise is irrelevant to anything otherwise.

As for ANY reality-discussion of the effects of outlawing abortion? Militant prolife men won't discuss it. They just chant about "murdering babies," occasionally throwing it severe sneering in general against women.

It was not until the religious rightwing of buy-gold! tele-evangelist Pat Robertson raided the Republican Party that it became declared that to be "conservative" you also had to want abortion made a criminal offense of "murder." Yet that isn't conservative whatsoever.

PS... Welcome to the forum.
 
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I see JayDubya wasted no time spouting the usual Stupid Lie, equating unborn human animals with human persons, in denial of the Scientific Facts.

The only thing stupid and lying is claiming that living human beings are not so.

Next, JayDubya reveals Great Hypocrisy, by stupidly opposing death before birth, and promoting death after birth. Because wanting to ban food stamps and other assistance has the net effect of an increased death rate among actual human persons.

Socialism should be opposed because it violates the human right to property.
Abortion should be opposed because it violates the human right to life.

Nevertheless, These are two completely independent issues, and you are trying to conflate them to decry a non-existent "hypocrisy."

Next, JayDubya repeats Great Hypocrisy, by claiming (paraphrased) "there are situations in which Rome deserves to burn".

A nation that doesn't perform its entire purpose for existing - upholding human rights through the rule of law - should not exist, it should be revolted against and replaced. It should burn. It's all in the mission statement.
 
I'm pro abortion yet conservative. This is why I'm pro abortion.

Just so you know, this is not an argument for the pro-choice (or pro-abortion as you put it) position. For if it is so great to prevent these bad outcomes via making those people not exist, would it not also be great to make those that are currently in those bad outcomes not exist as well? If not, then you need to differentiate abortion from killing those that are already born – which is what you would have to do to support the position prior to bringing this up in the first place.
 
I'm fine with what I wrote since it describes the situation.
FALSE. Mis-using the language is never an accurate way to describe a situation. Unborn humans do not qualify as "children". Nor as "babies", either. Because babies and children don't need umbilical cords in order to survive, or hadn't you noticed that? There Is Absolutely No Argument That Abortion Opponents Can Make That Changes The Difference Birth Makes, between the unborn and the born. Prior to birth, survival depends on parasitism. After birth, survival depends on receiving gifts.

I didn't deny it, did I? How is the compromise a good one to make? We allow the woman to kill her child in order to prevent crime? There is no ethics to that position from what I can see.
So long as you argue by mis-using the language, you can believe whatever nonsense you want. But since unborn humans do not qualify as "children" --they are only parasitic animals-- there is no crime, nor violation of ethics, in killing them when unwanted, just like there is no crime nor violation of ethics in killing other unwanted parasitic animals. Only the worthless prejudice of Abortion Opponents keeps them accepting the facts. (After birth, even though they are still only animals in Scientific Fact, they are at least no longer parasitic, and so the Law grants person status to them. It might actually be called "partial person status", since they don't have certain rights that adults do, such as the right to vote. Then note that a criminal --a parasite on society-- can be stripped of the right to vote, thereby losing a bit of person status....)
 
Just so you know, this is not an argument for the pro-choice (or pro-abortion as you put it) position. For if it is so great to prevent these bad outcomes via making those people not exist,....

Actually the point was made that if girls/women delay parenthood until they are older instead of becoming single moms in their teens there is higher chance they will be able to provide for the children they have.

As was said no 17 year old girl should be made to feel that just because her birth control failed or that she made mistake that she has to continue the pregnancy.

One should look forward to planning for and having a child.
Just like couples plan for their wedding.
 
The only thing stupid and lying is claiming that living human beings are not so.
FALSE. Denial of facts is always stupid, and in this case the facts you are denying are (1) that "human" and "person" are two different concepts, and (2) that "being", in the phrase "human being", is used as a synonym for "person". The funny thing is, you actually do know that "human" and "being"/"person" are two different concepts, which why it is not Redundant English to specify the phrase "human being". The language fully allows for the fact that some humans, in Scientific Fact, do not qualify as persons. Yet you continue to deny facts, just like all other lying bigots.

Socialism should be opposed because it violates the human right to property.
OH? Where did you acquire such nonsense as that? Do you plan on giving America back to the Native Americans? Do they plan on giving it back to the species they killed off when they invaded the continent from Asia? Since when has greed ever been formalized like that? I suppose you oppose taxes, too, while not opposing some of the things those taxes pay for, such as military preparedness. Tsk, tsk, more Hypocrisy on your part!

Abortion should be opposed because it violates the human right to life.
TOO BAD THERE ACTUALLY IS NO SUCH RIGHT --ask any volcano, flood, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, or giant meteor impact. The "right to life" is only a convenient fiction, useful for helping humans get along with each other better. Meanwhile, unborn humans do not "get along" with the women whose bodies they occupy; their activities are parasitic, biologically purely selfish/greedy. They do not deserve a "right to life", and, per the Law, they don't actually have it.

Nevertheless, These are two completely independent issues, and you are trying to conflate them to decry a non-existent "hypocrisy."
HAW! HAW!! HAW!!! "Human life" is "human life", regardless of whether one talks about the unborn or the born. If you think that born humans deserve to die, based on their actions, then you are indeed exhibiting stupid Hypocrisy in any claim that unborn humans might not be equally deserving to die, based on their actions.

A nation that doesn't perform its entire purpose for existing - upholding human rights through the rule of law - should not exist, it should be revolted against and replaced. It should burn. It's all in the mission statement.
HAW! HAW!! HAW!!! The "mission statement" that you are so fond of quoting only specifies "men". Not women, children, or the unborn. And, because of that "mission statement", women had to fight for decades to acquire the right to vote, and they are still fighting to achieve equal pay for equal work. Take your worthless nonsense --and your Hypocrisy-- elsewhere!
 
FALSE. Denial of facts is always stupid, and in this case the facts you are denying are (1) that "human" and "person" are two different concepts.

I agree, denial of fact and substituting delusion is pretty stupid. So why are you lying about the above, claiming I don't know the difference between "human" and "person" and pretending I haven't explicitly educated you on the topic multiple times now?

It is incredibly stupid of you, and it buggers belief.

The language fully allows for the fact that some humans, in Scientific Fact, do not qualify as persons. Yet you continue to deny facts, just like all other lying bigots.

Funny how you call me a lying bigot when you're the one with pathological disdain for an entire group of your fellow human beings to such an extent that you're willing to lie about basic scientific fact as you do here.

"Person" is never and will never be a scientific concept; it's a legal concept - it's subjective.

OH? Where did you acquire such nonsense as that?

No, I'm not going to talk economics with you in the Abortion subforum. Your support for socialism is as vile as your support for abortion but there are places to have that discussion.

TOO BAD THERE ACTUALLY IS NO SUCH RIGHT --ask any volcano, flood, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, or giant meteor impact.

Right, so you're uneducated and don't even remotely understand the concept. Thanks for the demonstration. Moving on...

HAW! HAW!! HAW!!!

Well golly, you've certainly convinced me of something.
 
Actually the point was made that if girls/women delay parenthood until they are older instead of becoming single moms in their teens there is higher chance they will be able to provide for the children they have.

As was said no 17 year old girl should be made to feel that just because her birth control failed or that she made mistake that she has to continue the pregnancy.

One should look forward to planning for and having a child.
Just like couples plan for their wedding.

None of that addresses my point. How do they “delay parenthood” in this case? By making those that would be more likely to have a bad outcome not exist. How does later birthing a kid when in a better situation change that fact?
 
None of that addresses my point. How do they “delay parenthood” in this case? By making those that would be more likely to have a bad outcome not exist. How does later birthing a kid when in a better situation change that fact?

And the best way to delay parenthood is a goof proof , inexpensive type of birth control with little or no side effects.
Birthing a child when one is NOT still a child themselves does change the outcome in the long run.

We cannot change the past but we can change our future and the future of generations to come by being pro active and striving for fewer unwanted pregnancies and unwanted children.
 
FALSE. Mis-using the language is never an accurate way to describe a situation. Unborn humans do not qualify as "children". Nor as "babies", either. Because babies and children don't need umbilical cords in order to survive, or hadn't you noticed that? There Is Absolutely No Argument That Abortion Opponents Can Make That Changes The Difference Birth Makes, between the unborn and the born. Prior to birth, survival depends on parasitism. After birth, survival depends on receiving gifts.

The unborn child shows some certain parasitic behaviors, but they are NOT parasites in and of themselves. As for my term usage, they are the offspring of two human beings and therefore their child. I will use unborn child if and when I feel like doing so and your endless bitching about it means nothing to me.

So long as you argue by mis-using the language, you can believe whatever nonsense you want. But since unborn humans do not qualify as "children" --they are only parasitic animals-- there is no crime, nor violation of ethics, in killing them when unwanted, just like there is no crime nor violation of ethics in killing other unwanted parasitic animals.

Ethically speaking promoting society as a whole to kill their unborn so as to avoid the potential of crime is unethical.

Only the worthless prejudice of Abortion Opponents keeps them accepting the facts. (After birth, even though they are still only animals in Scientific Fact, they are at least no longer parasitic, and so the Law grants person status to them. It might actually be called "partial person status", since they don't have certain rights that adults do, such as the right to vote. Then note that a criminal --a parasite on society-- can be stripped of the right to vote, thereby losing a bit of person status....)

Do you realize you just used a legal right to argue that children are less? How are you qualified to talk of ethics or rights when you make such a stupid argument?
 
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Socialism should be opposed because it violates the human right to property.

And that is pretty much all that needs to be said on the matter.
 
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Do you realize you just used a legal right to argue that children are less? How are you qualified to talk of ethics or rights when you make such a stupid argument?

My take was he pointed out that children do not have as many specific rights in the USA as most adults do which is very true.
Some of our rights are age specific.
Driving a car around age 16.
Drinking...usually 21.
etc,etc.
 
My take was he pointed out that children do not have as many specific rights in the USA as most adults do which is very true.
Some of our rights are age specific.
Driving a car around age 16.
Drinking...usually 21.
etc,etc.

The way we view children is uncivilized. We allow children to be abused by their parents because we fail to recognize that the "harm" standard is not good enough. We simply say that a child has no rights until such a point that the state decides that a harm has a occurred. It's a complete abandonment of any understanding of human rights to speak of and it disgusts me that we use it.

As for your examples, no one ever obeys drinking age laws. I don't even know why they bother with such restrictions on the right to liberty and I specially don't know where they get off putting the age limit at 21 well past age of consent. All they are doing is violating the rights of adults which such laws. Driving laws is another matter. I suppose in that case you could make the argument it's legitimate when directed towards public roads, but then the use of a public road is just a privilege, not a right. Outside of public roads however it's not really warranted behavior on the governments part.
 
And the best way to delay parenthood is a goof proof , inexpensive type of birth control with little or no side effects.
Birthing a child when one is NOT still a child themselves does change the outcome in the long run.

We cannot change the past but we can change our future and the future of generations to come by being pro active and striving for fewer unwanted pregnancies and unwanted children.

You appear to be stuck on saying that less unwanted kids means better outcomes for everyone (which is pretty much just rephrasing the OP). To be clear – I am not even bothering to challenge that argument (so there is no need for you to support it). My point is that even if I grant the argument, it does not support the "pro-abortion” (OP’s words) position.

So, the point is challenging why we are including abortion as a means to the “less unwanted kids” end. Specifically, it is challenging why it is included when presumably allowing already born unwanted kids to be killed is excluded as a means to that end. To include the former and exclude the latter, you would need to differentiate abortion from killing those that are already born – which is what you would have to do to support the position prior to bringing this up in the first place.
 
I agree, denial of fact and substituting delusion is pretty stupid.
Then why do you keep doing it??? I keep pointing out facts, and yet you continue, stupidly, to deny those facts!

So why are you lying about the above, claiming I don't know the difference between "human" and "person"...
I AM NOT LYING; the evidence, per multiple posts written by you, clearly indicates that you think every unborn human organism is a person. Which is wrong, a denial of fact! And, therefore, every time you indicate that "human" does indeed equal "person", it is you who are lying. Period.

...and pretending I haven't explicitly educated you on the topic multiple times now?
ANOTHER STUPID LIE, talking about other stupid lies you have told. Worthless! So far as I recall, you have NOT ONCE tried to answer the Question in my "signature" space, which has been attached to every message I've written for years at this web site. And, most likely, the reason you haven't tried to do it is because there is no way to answer that Question, and still have a valid rationale for opposing abortion!

It is incredibly stupid of you, and it buggers belief.
MORE LIES WILL GET YOU NOWHERE. Which is why I am not offended. You are only telling stupid lies, after all.

Funny how you call me a lying bigot when you're the one with pathological disdain for an entire group of your fellow human beings...
UTTERLY FALSE; THE SAME OLD STUPID LIE. Because I know something about the difference between "mere animal" and "person", while you obviously don't. That's why you continue to spout the same stupid lie, in denial of the factual differences between "mere animal" and "person". Because if you actually accepted those factual differences, you would stop stupidly lying!

...to such an extent that you're willing to lie about basic scientific fact as you do here.
HAW! HAW!! HAW!!! I do not at all deny the basic scientific fact that unborn humans, from zygote to birth, are perfectly alive, perfectly human, and perfectly animal. You, however, claim they are more than that, and have not yet presented one single whit of evidence in support of your stupid lie. You simply make the worthless claim, over and over and over, ad nauseum, again.

"Person" is never and will never be a scientific concept;
YET ANOTHER STUPID LIE. Tests such as this one (among others) would not exist if Science had no interest in the concept!

...it's a legal concept - it's subjective.
HAW! HAW!! HAW!!! AT LAST YOU REVEAL THE SOURCE OF YOUR LYING. To you, maybe, an unborn human, subjectively, is a person. But not to millions of other people, and not to US Law. Well, all you have to do is accept the actual facts, and then you, too, might decide to stop telling stupid lies about the subject.

No, I'm not going to talk economics with you in the Abortion subforum.
That's fine; I agree that there are better places for such a discussion.

Your support for socialism is as vile as your support for abortion but there are places to have that discussion.
YET ANOTHER STUPID LIE! Where, exactly, did I write something supporting socialism? I will agree I support a few things that Formal Socialists also support, but I also support things they don't. I am an Independent. That's why I wrote (msg #25):
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Such policies essentially create an "ecological niche", the definition of which is, basically, "any environment in which organisms can survive and successfully reproduce". The actual solution to the social problem is to somehow assist needy persons in their survival, while preventing them from succeeding at reproduction, so long as they are being socially assisted. (Good luck with the details of that, however!)
Your average socialist will want that ecological niche to include support for extra mouths being born! But since I know it can't work in the long long run, I oppose that aspect of social support.

Right, so you're uneducated and don't even remotely understand the concept. Thanks for the demonstration. Moving on...
YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. Otherwise, you would stop telling stupid lies.

Well golly, you've certainly convinced me of something.
Whatever it was, it didn't stop you from continuing to spout stupid lies, so, obviously, more work on the task needs to be done.
 
The unborn child shows some certain parasitic behaviors, but they are NOT parasites in and of themselves.
Parasitic actions are parasitic, regardless if performed by a true parasite, or by any other type of organism. And since those actions are generally unacceptable, they can be specifically unacceptable whenever one chooses. So, in the cases of women seeking abortions, they can, perfectly ethically, choose to refuse to accept the parasitic actions of the unborn they carry.

As for my term usage, they are the offspring of two human beings and therefore their child. I will use unborn child if and when I feel like doing so and your endless bitching about it means nothing to me.
Therefore you care nothing about the consequences, of causing extra/unnecessary emotional suffering whenever a Perfectly Natural Miscarriage occurs. All because you choose to tell a Partial Lie, instead of the whole truth. I repeat: "Shame on you!"

Ethically speaking promoting society as a whole to kill their unborn so as to avoid the potential of crime is unethical.
FALSE. The ethical rules of society are designed to promote the long-term peaceful survival of that society. It cannot do it if it is overrun with mouths that can't be fed. Period. Fortunately, since it is Scientific Fact that unborn humans are mere animals, killing them when unwanted is harmless to society. (I'll paraphrase something from another message: If you Abortion Opponents want them so badly to be born, why don't you put your money where your mouths are, and pay for them???" The primary Answer, so far, to that Question, is, "Most Abortion Opponents are actually a bunch of stupid hypocrites, wanting other people to pay for what they, the Abortion Opponents, want".)

Do you realize you just used a legal right to argue that children are less? How are you qualified to talk of ethics or rights when you make such a stupid argument?
YOUR MISINTERPRETATIONS WILL GET YOU NOWHERE. I simply indicated a parallel between parasitism and lack of rights, in two different situations. Abortion Opponents stupidly want to grant parasitic animal organisms personhood rights, in spite of both the Scientific Facts and the legal parallel I pointed out.
 
Just so you know, this is not an argument for the pro-choice (or pro-abortion as you put it) position. For if it is so great to prevent these bad outcomes via making those people not exist, would it not also be great to make those that are currently in those bad outcomes not exist as well? If not, then you need to differentiate abortion from killing those that are already born – which is what you would have to do to support the position prior to bringing this up in the first place.

You are assuming we agree that an embryo or fetus is a person, and I for one do not agree. Ending a human pregnancy is ending the process of constructing a human organism for a future person, so that that organism does not get fully constructed, just as ceasing to continuing writing a book means that the book does not get fully constructed. Using contraception is preventing the process of constructing a human organism for a future person, so that that organism does not get constructed at all. But when you are talking about the already born, you are talking about human organisms that have already been constructed and have demonstrated that they can live in complete separation from the bodies of the women who constructed them and therefore that they are already persons. Those born persons do have a right to life. Similarly, once you have published a book, it is out there in the public domain, and you can't take it back.
 
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You appear to be stuck on saying that less unwanted kids means better outcomes for everyone (which is pretty much just rephrasing the OP). To be clear – I am not even bothering to challenge that argument (so there is no need for you to support it). My point is that even if I grant the argument, it does not support the "pro-abortion” (OP’s words) position.

So, the point is challenging why we are including abortion as a means to the “less unwanted kids” end. Specifically, it is challenging why it is included when presumably allowing already born unwanted kids to be killed is excluded as a means to that end. To include the former and exclude the latter, you would need to differentiate abortion from killing those that are already born – which is what you would have to do to support the position prior to bringing this up in the first place.

See my post above. You are assuming that the unborn are completely constructed persons, or that they are not constructed by the use of the woman's body and life, over which she has sovereignty. She certainly has the right to refuse to use her body and life to continue the construction process.
 
You appear to be stuck on saying that less unwanted kids means better outcomes for everyone (which is pretty much just rephrasing the OP). To be clear – I am not even bothering to challenge that argument (so there is no need for you to support it). My point is that even if I grant the argument, it does not support the "pro-abortion” (OP’s words) position.

So, the point is challenging why we are including abortion as a means to the “less unwanted kids” end. Specifically, it is challenging why it is included when presumably allowing already born unwanted kids to be killed is excluded as a means to that end. To include the former and exclude the latter, you would need to differentiate abortion from killing those that are already born – which is what you would have to do to support the position prior to bringing this up in the first place.

That is a nonsensical stance, since the 'end' is for women to retain reproductive rights over their own bodies. Since some people feel the need to tell women what to do with their own bodies, and to restrict reproductive rights, arguments have been presented as to how access to abortion is more beneficial than no access to abortion.

One such argument is that a product of unwanted pregnancies carried to term is unwanted children, along with all that children entail plus additional worries occurring when a child is unwanted.

Additionally, the argument seeks to ask fundamentalists who prefer no abortion ever, what should be done with the children that are the product of unwanted pregnancies. Since currently those kids commonly suffer abuses OR are raised by young women ill equipped financially or emotionally to care for them and rely on social services to help them raise their kids. PREVENTING unwanted pregnancy is a logical means to reduce the number of abortions. Since abortion serves to end an unwanted pregnancy. No unwanted pregnancy in the first place means no abortion.
 
That is a nonsensical stance, since the 'end' is for women to retain reproductive rights over their own bodies. Since some people feel the need to tell women what to do with their own bodies, and to restrict reproductive rights, arguments have been presented as to how access to abortion is more beneficial than no access to abortion.

One such argument is that a product of unwanted pregnancies carried to term is unwanted children, along with all that children entail plus additional worries occurring when a child is unwanted.

Additionally, the argument seeks to ask fundamentalists who prefer no abortion ever, what should be done with the children that are the product of unwanted pregnancies. Since currently those kids commonly suffer abuses OR are raised by young women ill equipped financially or emotionally to care for them and rely on social services to help them raise their kids. PREVENTING unwanted pregnancy is a logical means to reduce the number of abortions. Since abortion serves to end an unwanted pregnancy. No unwanted pregnancy in the first place means no abortion.

If there are studies available that offer a picture of child abuse by "young mothers who didn't want them" vs mothers who did want their children and yet abuse them, I'd be grateful if you'd provide them.

Realistically, your math doesn't add up: There is no way to prevent every unwanted pregnancy anymore than there is a way to keep people from having irresponsible sex. If you check the Guttmacher stats, you'll see that 46% of those who sought abortions didn't use birth control.
 
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As for your examples, no one ever obeys drinking age laws. I don't even know why they bother with such restrictions on the right to liberty and I specially don't know where they get off putting the age limit at 21 well past age of consent. ....

Well , I know I am probably in the minority but I did obey the drinking age law.
In fact as far as I know I never intentionally broke any laws.
I have caught myself going a little over the sped limit at times but it was not done intentionally.
 
And more than half the women who sought abortions did use birth control.
 
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