I mean, aids, tuberculosis and malaria wipe out millions of africans each year, so wouldn't it be more humane and much better for the environment if they could be prevented from being born at all?
2007-01-03 09:20:46 · 25 answers · asked by Desiree J 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think your point is lost on these plebs.
2007-01-03 09:31:28 · answer #1 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The main problem is education and she is right about the mother being the primary educator of the children. Educating the girls does double duty as they will educate their children. The best thing you can do to promote peace and wellbeing world wide is to make sure that everyone gets all the education they have the capacity for. Right now there is deliberate deprivation of education for commercial reasons. By education I don't mean the dreck you get in US schools. I mean real education. If you don't know...and it looks as if you are perhaps unaware...do some investigating on your own. You will be shocked at what you find. Want to be able to go where ever you want on the earth in peace and find friends where ever you go? Make sure everyone has the best education that can be provided. Then you will see true prosperity on earth and the oppression will be sloughed off like a snakes molting skin. Nobody will be able to oppress an educated people.
2007-01-03 09:28:34 · answer #2 · answered by regmor12 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that that course of action would be appropriate at all. Reproductive rights should be in the hands of citizens, and they should be free to choose when, how, and why they procreate. I don't feel that they should be coerced into abortion/sterilization by creating more clinics to do so. Even when people are sterilized, it is still very much possible to spread HIV. If these tactics were used to diminish the population of Africa, it wouldn't necessarily improve the world in any way. By building schools, citizens of Africa will be able to become more informed about reproduction, the spread of disease, and many other important modern-day issues.
2007-01-03 09:27:50 · answer #3 · answered by adamguy85 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you playing "Devil's Advocate?"
If not, you are asking a very foolish question.
Oprah believes education will help these young women. If they can read and write, they have a way out of poverty. They will be able to make educated and informed decisions. They will be able to decide their own fates.
Abortion and sterilization are the coward's way out. These are solutions that solve "temporary" problems. The poverty and ignorance will still be there.
Would you want to be sterilized against your will? Would you want someone to drag you to a hospital to have an abortion against your will? Do you want to make the choices that decide your life's destiny? If you say "yes" then imagine that the young women that Oprah is helping are saying "yes," too.
2007-01-03 09:26:04 · answer #4 · answered by Malika 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Do you think before you speak honey? Seriously. If anyone should have been prevented from being born, one might consider you being on that list. Stop hating others for the good they do or TRY to do. Instead, get off your lazy butt, get an education and then take a tour of Africa and rather than criticize, HELP out, contribute...do something more than delagate or speak your mind!
2007-01-03 09:28:19 · answer #5 · answered by Hollynfaith 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I'm happy that Oprah spend her money on schools so that it can better educate people on safe sex, aids, and all other illnesses. This is an easier way of preventing aids, etc.
Also, I don't see abortion of innocent babies 'more humane'. I see it as quite the opposite.
2007-01-03 09:28:14 · answer #6 · answered by agelikewine 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're sick.
Birth control - yes. Abortion - when necessary. Sterilization - and who gets to pick who gets sterlized?
More education could cut down on the need for abortion and the disease rate. Do you realize that many Africans don't know good ways of preventing disease and the spread of it? That many think you can get rid of AIDS by raping a few virgins? Education is the way to go.
2007-01-03 09:24:09 · answer #7 · answered by eri 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
No, apparently not. Interesting question though.
It seems that abortion is only ok if it is out of convenience and for some reason people think that those people who have these poor kids have every right to keep on having them.
Doesnt make sense to me. I think we could educate them on where babies come from and that sleeping with a virgin will not cure HIV.
2007-01-03 09:24:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Geez, dont ya think maybe using the money to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria would be better than eugenics programs?? Or are you a pious Christian?
I cant beleive I finally agree with Fireball for once....
2007-01-03 09:24:26 · answer #9 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Oprah is crafty. She gets the PR, and the money would have gone to taxes to pay for American education and other things. She like the others got rich because they are very clever people.
2007-01-03 09:26:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
One person can't solve every ill. You have to choose what you can do to help if you're so lucky as to be in a position to do so.
If it were me, I'd probably lean toward making things pretty. Because that's something that is important to me. But I'm poor.
2007-01-03 09:23:24 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋