Why don't anti abortionists spend less time trying to force women to give birth and more time trying to?

Question

tackle the problem at its source by having better sex education in schools and increasing accesibility to birth control?

apostle jeff who are you f*cking kidding not everyone is going to wait until marriage no matter how much you try to preach about it

Meg M maybe if more people were educated about fire safety the fire wouldn't have been started in the first place

Answer 1

Because it's not really about being pro-life. If the cause was really about being pro-life, the anti-abortion movement would be consistent and would (for example) be in favor of better health care, since more babies die unnecessarily after birth than before. To say nothing of capital punishment and war, though I recognize there are other issues there. [I do acknowledge that there are some who ARE consistently pro-life, but they are the exception],

It's really about being ANTI-choice and ANTI-sex. Those are the real emotional drivers, I believe. Not for everybody, but for the leadership of that movement.

It's not about following the word of God, either - that's just the excuse. Abortion was common when Jesus was around, but it's not recorded that he thought the issue was important. Furthermore, the biblical conception (so to speak) of life is NOT that it begins at conception or when the cells divide or when there is a beating heart in the fetus of whatever. That's what the modern scientific evidence might support. The biblical conception is that life begins when God breathes spirit into matter, and that doesn't happen until immediately after birth.

Answer 2

Part of the problem is that some of the pro-life people are Roman Catholic and supposedly don't believe in birth control although a lot of the RC women I know take birth control pills. And it's not because of a medical condition.

Answer 3

Yes a few hundred women may still resort to back-alley coathanger abortions. But at least that number of women currently die from the effects of "safe legal" abortions, and many thousands more suffer lasting physical and mental trauma. Also, a million or more children per year can be saved from brutal slaughter. Do you also suggest legalizing robbery? The way it is now, thieves have to sneak around carrying weapons, and are at the mercy of intended victims who may shoot back. Why not make robbery safe and legal, so those who desire to do it won't be at such great risk?

Answer 4

I'm a Christian and believe that God "knew us before we were born". but I would be a lier if I said that I wouldn't or haven't suggested abortion in the past.
If my child was raped and got impregnated,( like I was at 13) would I suggest it? This is a battle I have had with myself for years...
but to answer your question, I think that if the "anti-abortionists" spent 1/3 of their time worrying about the unwanted children that are already here, we might not have such a big problem with un-wanted pregnancies.

i hoped this helped

Answer 5

The issue actually has nothing to do with whether you're "killing a wee life" or not, it's entirely about controlling other people and forcing your religious beliefs on them.

There's a push in this country to break away from the original "separation of church and state" and turn this into a christian country. Considering christianity's history of slaughtering innocents of other religions, and blackmailing poor people from other countries into accepting christianity;
"Here's some food for your starving family, but you have to accept Jesus first!"

It's no surprise they want to make their religious beliefs law and persecute others. For the record, abortion is a sin according to YOUR religious beliefs, but there are MANY religions out there in which it ISN'T a sin.

Answer 6

Because life just for some reason doesn't happen that way. sorry, my daughter is now 21 and asking me about birth control, and she took that sex education class in high school, go figure.

Answer 7

we have! we put condome machines in grade school bath rooms. and teach sex ed in middle school. Now we have a sex offender over populatuion in our prisons, and sex offender registries for every state! Sexually liberated 12 and 13 year olds . Now we working on an Aids Offender registry, and we gonna make their medical records available to the public and they gonna have to register if they change addresses. As for Abortion,,,,,go and watch the documentry!!!!

Answer 8

If you saw a baby in a burning house, which would you consider the more pressing issue: saving the baby, or educating people about fire safety?

>>Meg M maybe if more people were educated about fire safety the fire wouldn't have been started in the first place<<

I agree, but that doesn't help the baby who is in immediate danger, does it?

Answer 9

The abortion law as established in Roe v. Wade is just fine how it stands. Women can’t abort during the first trimester. This is long before a baby becomes self-aware or conscious or anything more than a vestigial organ, really. Using the pro-life argument assumes that, this being the case, every single egg and sperm cell in existence needs to be kept alive because they are each a potential child. Of course, this is idiotic. The current US law is, if anything, lenient and sympathizing toward pro-life activists. It marks a time before the embryo becomes even mildly developed, let alone being a full-fledged infant.

Answer 10

Because they don't want a reasonable solution to the problem. They like the idea that there are consequences to having unprotected sex. They think it's great, for example, that people get STDs that way. They think it's god's punishment.
If you don't believe me, I can pretty much guarantee that whenever you ask this question of them you are going to see that mindset.