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I have talked to a few women who decided to abort their pregnancies. Not one of them looked back without regret. I had a lengthy discussion with one lady who had an abortion in the 1980's. She said there was not a day she did not think about what her baby might have been. I pointed out that pro-abortion advocates didn't believe a fetus was a baby or even human. Her response: ask any women who has ever had an abortion that question.
I don't know what the answer is. It's certainly not the death penalty, but we need some paradigm shift in the collective thinking of a nation that finds it acceptable to terminate over a million pregnancies a year. Perhaps every women who wants an elective abortion should have to talk with a grown women who had one when she was young and get her perspective.
Another important step would be to end the support cycle available to teen and unwed mothers. End WIC, welfare, and similar programs that help support this type of behavior.
However unlikely, I think that only the restoration of shame and a reduction in the sexualization of all aspects of society will reduce the rate of abortions. When I was a young woman, the prospect of the shame that came with an unwanted pregnancy was a HUGE deterrent to sexual activity. I was also not exposed to the level of "sex saturation" that currently exists. Viagra and sexual enhancement ads, explicit sex scenes on even network TV, 11 year old girls giving oral sex. (I did not even know what oral sex was until I was 18 and in college.) Heck I just saw a commercial about some seafood dish with a big lid on it and the tagline was the guy at the table telling the woman to "take your top off". A commercial for a seafood restaurant! Nothing is sacred anymore, nothing is shameful anymore. Our innocence is gone and our sense of morality has been severely diminished.
And I don't see it turning around unfortunately. It's just another sign of the decline of our once great nation. It breaks my heart.
The documentary "In The Womb" should be shown in every class from kindergarten on up every year so children will know what is in the womb and anyone with a heart would never put themselves in a postion to kill their baby. The left wingers in the schools try to convince children that a baby is just a glob of cells to be gotten rid of.
1. Make birth control easily available and provide extensive education about its use.
2. Make sure that people understand that giving up a baby for adoption does NOT make you a bad person but rather a someone loving enough to choose giving their child a good life. Provide support for the person making this choice during pregnancy and after they give birth and after the adoption takes place.
3. Make it mandatory that everyone considering abortion views a film that shows the various stages of the baby's developement and that, if they are past the first trimester, they see a sonogram of their own child.
4. Provide extensive support for the pregnant woman who chooses to have and keep her baby so that there is health care for both she and her baby, financial support for her and the baby, job training for her and child care for her baby while she gets on her feet, etc. Provide parenting classes, nutritional education, birth control education, etc. etc.
Teach teens in health class that having sex has a good chance of causing pregnancy unless you use birth control. No more of this abstinence only foolishness.
I have talked to a few women who decided to abort their pregnancies. Not one of them looked back without regret. I had a lengthy discussion with one lady who had an abortion in the 1980's. She said there was not a day she did not think about what her baby might have been. I pointed out that pro-abortion advocates didn't believe a fetus was a baby or even human. Her response: ask any women who has ever had an abortion that question.
I don't know what the answer is. It's certainly not the death penalty, but we need some paradigm shift in the collective thinking of a nation that finds it acceptable to terminate over a million pregnancies a year. Perhaps every women who wants an elective abortion should have to talk with a grown women who had one when she was young and get her perspective.
thanks for the clarification
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