Best Pro-Choice Argument I've Seen in a While

There's nothing like personal experience to put a debate in context. More often than not the pro-choice/pro-life debate comes down to nothing more than rhetoric and ideology, particularly on the pro-life side of the debate. That's one reason I don't like to get involved in abortion debates. There's simply too much emotion involved. Plus, I'm a male, so I don't think it's my place to decide what a woman does with her body, anyway. However, the aspect that most pro-lifers tend to forget is how their desired results would affect the actual people involved.

I came across a heart-wrenching post (thanks to Pharyngula) about a husband who had to struggle with this very problem. In it, the author relates an instance where his wife and he did not want an abortion, but complications made it increasingly likely the mother would die without one, and, due to her condition, placed the decision squarely on the husbad's shoulders. More than anything, it shows how government involvment in a difficult time would simply make it even worse.

It's an eye-opening article, so check it out.

Now This is Really Idiotic

The America First Party posted a press release yesterday on their website with the title "Abortion Leads to Nuclear War" after the Mother Teresa quote. It's all a bunch of ignorant nonsense about how the Republicans are no longer pro-life and you should vote for the America First Party, blah, blah, blah.

Okay idiots (sorry to seem insensitive, but that includes Mother Teresa too), nuclear bombs have been used twice in only one war, and I seriously doubt the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had anything to do with abortion, considering it wasn't legal in the US in 1945.

This "press release" also features the line:

"It is abhorrent that abortion supporters choose to hide behind the term 'choice' to mask their goal of destroying unborn children and promoting immoral behavior without responsibility."

Let me tell you right now, no one wants to destroy children. It's just that sometimes an abortion is the only option a mother may have to keep from ruining her life or the lives of her future children. Life is not always fair or simple. That's the way it is. I wish we could all live in a dream world of magic, but we don't, and trying to legislate it into reality won't make it so.

Proof that Abstinence-only Education Causes More Harm Than Good

CNN has reported on a recent study that shows 95% of Americans engage in premarital sex. If that isn't proof that abstinence-only education won't work, then nothing is. Clearly, Americans are going to have sex whether you tell them to or not. Not teaching them anything about contraceptives, or teaching that contraceptives are harmful, is criminal in my mind. If the RR wants to reduce teen pregnancies and abortions, then they need to face reality and actually educate children on the propery way to prevent pregnancies. Of course, the RR operates in a dreamworld of magic, and everyone knows that reality has a strong liberal bias.

To read the CNN article, click here.