pro-lifers and pro-choicers, Fundy & Lib Christians can we agree?

Question

To work together as a nation to reduce and eliminate abortion by preventing unwanted pregnencies?

We would need education, both on abstinance and other means of preventing pregency.

I know the most liberal of democrats would be more than happy to work towards this goal. Will the right wing go along?

Or will they say that birth control is 'ungodly'. And if they work to deprive us of the tools needed to stop UWP, aren't they guilty of continuing the abortion mills also?

anthony, I don't know how to break this to you, but lots of married women have abortions. And I don't know of a single school that passes out birth control and condoms. I may be wrong, but that is not my experience.

Answer 1

Birth control and condoms are handed out for (virtually) free at Planned Parenthood and a number of other facilities, but they are not available at public schools.

And why not? It seems that with the well documented failures of abstinence-only programs, the early age of sexual experience, and the acknowledgement that this is a DIVERSE country that has varying sexual values, making sexual health devices and methods available for those who want them is simply good public policy.

Abortion foes have it in mind not only to prevent pregnancy, but to convert the women to their own values and religion. If they truly want to reduce the number of abortions, then they need to help prevent pregnancy in the first place, and they darn well better be applying the MOST EFFECTIVE MEANS POSSIBLE in doing so. Set aside the effort to convert and speak with one voice, as was in Uganda's anti-AIDS successes:

A: Abstinence whenever possible.
B: Be faithful to one spouse
C: Condoms (along with other forms of Birth Control) whenever having sex outside of a life-long, monogamous relationship.

Answer 2

I'm totally in favor of preventing/reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies through education, and also in favor of the above approach to supporting women who carry their babies to term. I am actively involved in both approaches already.

The problem with birth control is that it provides a false sense of security. Planned Parenthood openly admits that more than 50% of the women who seek abortions do so because of "failed birth control." If they weren't counting on birth control to prevent a pregnancy that they really couldn't deal with, what would they choose instead? Voluntary abstinence, which really does work EVERY time it's tried.

The best thing to do is to educate women about their own bodies. It's rather hideous how women are completely clueless about how their bodies work! If women were taught the natural signs that their bodies produce during ovulation -- there are many different signs and each woman has her own combination that she can track successfully -- then she would know when she is most likely to get pregnant and when she is not, and she can make her choices about sexual activity accordingly. Now *that* is being pro-choice!

And the best part about it is, when a woman knows her own body, she can detect problems like cervical cancer, poly-cystic ovarian syndrome and other conditions very early, when treatment is most effective.

Answer 3

I have to agree that, unfortunately, the Religious Right is more interested in making women conform to their sexual and gender-role mores than they are in reducing abortions to a minimum. What they want is to ban abortion, AND make contraception hard to get, so women are faced with the choice of either abstaining or carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term (and if the woman in question is not open to adoption, giving up the next 18 years of her life).

I've been told by some fundies that even women who are married but want careers should either avoid vaginal sex or be prepared to throw all their hard work and the money they put into an education right in the trash if they won't surrender a child for adoption. With ppl thinking like that, it's hard to get anywhere with a reasoned approach.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The people in Washington who are so opposed to abortion are also violently opposed to condom use, Plan B, and comprehensive sex-ed in schools.

You'll not findy many anti-choicers who agree with providing contraception, which would prevent abortion in the first place. Only when women are reduced to breeding pigs owned by the state will they be satisfied.

Answer 6

YEs its true teenagers will have sex whether you tell them its right or its wrong so you might as well educate them on it! I know this because I am a teenager!! Birth control does not make someone thing "oh I can have sex now" because they will anyway if they want to, it just makes it a whoooole lot safer.

Answer 7

I would and I do. Besides what you mentioned, I want to help mothers after their children are born. It's unfair to expect a woman to carry her pregnancy to term, but tell her society won't be there to help her with the costs of infant healthcare.

Answer 8

How about teaching absolutes.First we have to stop Planned Parenthood.Why?Did you know they used over 55 million U.S. tax dollars last year to fund abortions?It might have been a higher number.It's been a couple of weeks since I read it.If a person doesn't want to be a parent,then they shouldn't be having sex.

Answer 9

i would love to do that, but many pro-lifers are against birth control and proper sex ed. if we could shut them up and make them the minority, i think we could eliminate the need for abortions. however, i still wouldn't make it illegal.

Answer 10

I think you got it all wrong. Birth control is given out for free in our public schools. It is not a problem to get. The problem is premarital sex. With all the condoms goven out people still keep on having abortions, contracting STD's and giving their unwanted babies up for adoption. The only solution is for people to have sex when they are married. This will ensure that the child will be kept.