southcitymom
Well-Known Member
AMEN!
Well said, believe!
If it helps people who need to personalize the issue, such a minute amount of your taxes go towards abortion and quite possibly none. You are making an issue personal when it's not about you! At all! It's about a woman and the rights she has to her own body and the choices surrounding it. I also find it quite ironic that the same concerns are not made for unjust war where many more living, breathing people (mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, daughters, sons, aunts and uncles) die daily than by abortion.
But if you'd rather force people to have children they don't want, you will be paying in end through welfare, Medicaid and other needed interventions and services. And an increase in child abandonment and violence against children.
People are going to have abortions. They have since the beginning of time. This is not going to stop. I'd rather them have safe abortions in the care of a medical professional rather than in the basement with their cousin's friend and some ill-advised medical advice.
I loved your whole post, but the part I bolded crosses my mind daily. The reality is that we are more than willing to end life with our tax dollars - we just think that some lives are more worth saving than others. Boggles my mind. There is a very interesting poll and thread, somewhere here in the Jury Room I think, asking people's position on the death penalty and abortion. It was a fascinating read.