Today's NYT reports:
Except in very limited and specific circumstances, abortion is against the law in Brazil, which is the most populous Roman Catholic nation in the world with an estimated 140 million church members. Even so, abortions are not uncommon:
Honestly, this tells me everything I need to know about people who want to criminalize abortion. It's not about preventing abortion. If you really wanted to prevent abortion, you'd do things that have been shown to be effective at preventing abortion. You'd provide free, safe, effective birth control. You'd educate girls. You'd provide accurate thorough sex education. You'd support women and children with things such as medical care, day care, etc. Places in Scandanavia that do those kinds of things have very liberal abortion laws and very low abortion rates.
If you keep doing something that doesn't prevent abortion, it's because your goal isn't to prevent abortion. It's something else. Such as controlling women's bodies, making women pay for sex, keeping women from competing equally with met, etc. But it's not about preventing abortion.
And, the pope can bite me. What business does he have telling any country what to do?
5 comments:
"If you keep doing something that doesn't prevent abortion, it's because your goal isn't to prevent abortion."
Excellent point. I couldn't have said it better.
Exactly. It's about the sex. It's about Punishment-by-Baby. Tell the anti-choice ranters you'll be grateful when there is no need for abortions when there is a 100% fool proof birth control method. They don't want that either.
Excellent post. I'm continually frustrated by the "no abortion - no sex education" crowd. Since "no sex at all" isn't an option in the real world, women, many very young women, are caught in the middle with unwanted pregnancies.
Wow. Well said.
- CK Dexter haven
The pope can bite me too. He'd better be buying goose down vestments for the lowest circle of hell.
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