My answer? no. Legislation cannot create morality. Prohibition did not stir moral outrage against drinking; it stirred outrage against Prohibition itself, and promoted widespread disrespect for all laws.
2007-10-24 18:01:46 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's not like we JUST legalized it. How could it be responsible for "moral decay."
2007-10-24 18:06:11 · answer #1 · answered by Jason 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't. I think that abortion is a medical procedure that can be a great help to women AND men AND children around the world, when used properly. As you said, legislation cannot create morality, and at any rate, abortion allows many people to do good things with their lives... like get an education or a better job so that they can further themselves or raise their current children more stably, or not have to live with a constant reminder of rape or incest. Obviously, it also is beneficial in situations where the mother would be in danger or the child would be so severely deformed that it would die anyway.
If anything, the sign of moral decay is that people are so quickly divided into a false dichotomy... it appears that one must be either totally "pro-life" or totally "pro-choice", and that's not a good thing. Something as complex and person as abortion needs to be considered on the individual scale, not divided into black and white.
We should work together to reduce the need for abortions in the first place by providing better access to REAL, comprehensive sex education, reliable contraceptives and the how to use them, and help people plan their families if they so choose. Arguing back and forth doesn't really help the people caught in the middle.
2007-10-24 18:16:27 · answer #2 · answered by Rat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no "moral decay" destroying America...right now, in the year 2007, we are as moral a country as we have ever been. I mean, compare this society to those in the past...slavery, child labor, preventing women from voting until the 20th century, segregation, Jim Crow laws...obviously we still have a TON of problems, but I'll take the ones we have now over the ones we solved.
2007-10-24 18:14:53 · answer #3 · answered by Tut Uncommon 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Abortion when legalised seems to have the effect of reducing the crime rate a generation later (since unwanted babies are more likely to grow up to be criminals) so in fact it is the talk of banning abortion that is the moral decay.
2007-10-24 18:08:56 · answer #4 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think christians picketing abortion clinics to make a hard time even worse is bad... I think the murder of doctors and the bombing of abortion clinics to make their point is wrong... I think the people who do things like this is a sign of moral decay...
2007-10-24 18:13:23 · answer #5 · answered by Gyspy 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
No.
Abortion IS the moral decay that is destroying America.
Abortion has already destroyed up to 1/3 of the current generation of young people.
How many more need to die?
2007-10-24 18:29:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The only moral decay destroying America is debt and war. Everything else here is great.
2007-10-24 18:06:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
No. I don't see the point of the whole abortion debate. I mean, i see why people want to air their opinions, etc, but abortion is legal, and that is unlikely to change. Harping on about how it is murder blah blah is pointless. It isn't murder, it's a bunch of cells. And if there weren't valid reasons for abortion to be legal why would it be available? Also, sorry i posted this in reply to your question i suppose its not really relevant to the actual question.
2007-10-24 18:06:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Religion is the moral decay that is destroying America?
2007-10-24 18:08:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
No.
Every generation bewails the "moral decay" of the next. It was true in the early days of human civilization, and it's true now.
2007-10-24 18:08:23 · answer #10 · answered by Scott M 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋