Is it fair to say that Dems. and Reps. are both hypocritical on abortion?

Question

Democrats seem not to care about children until they're born, and Republicans seem to care about children only up until they're born. Fair?

Walter C Vaughn, I realize that, I didn't mean to group everyone together. I'm talking about the majority though.

Answer 1

I would have to disagree and say that I think republicans are more hypocritical (although I admit, as a democrat I am biased). People who are pro-choice generally don't not care about children until they're born, but don't see a fetus as a child either until birth or at a certain point in pre-natal development. Simply put, it is not a child to them yet.

Comedian George Carlin put it best in regards to republican beliefs..."if you're pre-born you're cool, if you're pre-school you're ******....republicans need live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers." Not trying to insult anyone here...they're just jokes!

To those that don't get where the generalization about republicans not caring about children after they're born comes from....it doesn't apply to your OWN children (obviously) but rather to the fact that republicans usually oppose social aid, welfare programs, etc. that help out children and families in need.

Answer 2

Unfair. First, it ignores that there are pro-choice Republicans and anti-abortion Democrats. Second, the pro-choice group doesn't not CARE about children until they're born; instead, they have a different view of when cell clusters become children. Also, any pregnant pro-choice woman who wants to keep her baby would fight to the death to protect it. Finally, plenty of anti-abortion people do care about children after they're born as well; they just don't necessarily do so by supporting medical or financial assistance, assuming it's the childrens' parents' responsibility--and not the taxpayers--to care for said children.

In other words--a lot more complicated than your example implies.

Answer 3

In my eyes the debate ends when we get to the point that getting an Abortion,short of some medical catastrophe,is the brutal murder of a completely innocent human being. And I care just as much after the baby is born,I have never opposed most of the aid given to single mothers,I just think that most that are on them could do it themselves if they actually cared to try. Instead it's just so much easier to milk the system. I just see way too much abuse of the system by those who are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves, and then when someone like me points that out we are just "cruel and heartless"

As for Abortion I say this,if someone cannot take care of the baby,or doesn't want it then what is so wrong with adoption. I simply don't understand how killing an infant in the womb is preferable to finding them a home. But that logic just can't seem to get through to people,I guess when the convenience of the mother is a stake then a cold blooded murder is perfectly acceptable.

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Answer 4

hahah well personally, i'm pro-choice, but i can still get a laugh outta that and i do see your point =]

but to defend my own views (and i speak only for myself here) it is not that i don't care about unborn children... it's merely that the health or basic well-being, state of mind, etc. of the mother needs to be a priority. she's someone that has lived and contributed to society already and therefore in some minimal way takes some measure of precedence. plus i don't think a fetus that is completely supported by another being constitutes a person. i feel the need to point out that i am only in favor of first trimester abortions (unless the mother's life is at risk) and i don't think any fetus that undeveloped should have more weight in the decision than the mother. plus, and i know this sounds like a cruel reason and i'll prob get some crap for this, but the world is far too over-populated as it is. we can't even get our own babies adopted, and that's not even considering the orphan rates of third world countries.

i'm sorry... i had no intention of saying that much, but 'tis my view!

Answer 5

I hate to assert it, yet i think of the country is in simple terms too large to be ruled effectively. issues may well be greater valuable if we've been divided into 4 or 5 zones. Our values are so diverse. as an occasion, how do we create a nationwide wellbeing gadget, whilst innovations approximately abortion are completely diverse counting on the place people stay? The liberals are going to choose abortions to be lined as area of the nationwide wellbeing plan. The social conservatives are unlikely to choose ANY abortions to be paid for, no count what the situations... the alterations are overwhelming!! i've got faith like we are too divided on faith, lifestyle, and the version between city and rural...

Answer 6

I think it's a little bit of an exaggeration, but in many ways it is pretty true. I don't think Republicans don't care at all about kids after they are born, and I don'T think Democrats don't care at all about kids before they are born. But comparatively Republicans care more before birth and Democrats after, I would say just not to the extent you wrote it as.

Answer 7

I don't think its fair assessment. I love children, I have children and grandchildren, abortion is not a choice I would ever make but if a girl or woman is raped, is sexually molested, or feels unequipped for motherhood, I think she should have a safe place to have an abortion. Before abortions were legal, there were still abortions for rich people and there were still dangerous abortions for poor people. As a man I think they should have a woman only election to decide the fate of abortions.

Answer 8

No, not fair. You've mis-stated both positions.

Democrats believe that people should be allowed to do whatever they want within their own bodies (except drugs) but that whatever they do, the govt should take care of them.

Republicans believe that the majority should be able to decide what everyone else can or cannot do. But that aside from dictating behavior, people are on their own to actually take care of their necessities of life.

Answer 9

Yes,

You have those that fight, and those and use it, and those that do nothing about it. To tie them all in as one group would be Hypocritical. That is like saying all white people would prefer for blacks to be slaves again.

Answer 10

No. You have nothing to back up your claim that "Republicans do not care about children."