--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Judy: > > > Did you hear her say that pro-life and pro-choice > > people should be able to work together to reduce > > (as opposed to "deny") abortions by promoting > > preventive measures? She means birth control and > > sex education, not banning abortion, obviously > > (since pro-choice people wouldn't stand for a ban). > > Yes, I could have added this to the plus column but didn't > because I don't know if she is talking about abstinence > education to reduce abortions or contraception.
The latter. She's spoken about this before. She's fine with sex education, including about contraception, in schools. Also, sex education that's limited to abstinence education is not acceptable to pro-choicers either, and she knows that. It's not something pro-choice and pro-life people could ever work together on, any more than banning abortion is. > > That is not the approach of a religious fanatic > > (and in fact will likely outrage religious fanatics). > > > > For that matter, believing that human life with > > all the rights and privileges thereunto > > appertaining begins at conception is not a view > > that people hold only for religious reasons. > > There are nonreligious people who believe this as > > well. > > That is true, but not in her case. She has been clear on > where her beliefs on this come from. Would you be more inclined to tolerate the view (as opposed to not agreeing with it) if someone believed it for nonreligious reasons? > FWIW, I know politicians all have to say they want to reduce > abortions, but I would like to increase them. Right now there > is a state by state battle going on limiting access to abortion > clinics, their numbers are shrinking. Babies that are born to > families who can't care for them are a bigger problem for > society (the book Freakonomics links it to higher crime.) I'd like to reduce the *need* for them, but I agree that whatever need there is should be fulfilled. I'd also point out, though, that families that can't care for their children aren't limited to those that wanted an abortion but couldn't get one; and that not everyone who gets an abortion wanted one. There's a role, in other words, for better support for families with children, both in reducing abortion and in reducing crime.
