Abortion will one day be seen as appalling as slavery.

[k.smith904]

Originally Posted by StabbyAbby

Yes...because pregnancy is so easy.

Nevermind the enormous medical bills.

Nevermind the fact that pregnancy can cause or agitate pre-existing medical conditions.

Nevermind the fact that many women aren't willing to dedicate 9 months of their life just to give away their own flesh and blood for strangers to raise.

Nevermind the pain of childbirth.

Women are just baby machines to you, aren't they?

Nevermind the already overcrowded orphanages and lack of foster parents.

Nevermind the looming Republican threat of slashing any and all funding that might help that child succeed in life.

[2mares]

Originally Posted by PullMyFinger

I agree that people will find the idea of abortion to be revolting someday if society progresses, includes more and more of the population in progress and gives them hope for the future. If society keeps going towards have's and have not's ignorance will continue to fester and grow and the result will be more irresponsible behavior and desperate women taking measures they may regret.

Abortion is a symptom of our society problems IMO.

You know abortion has been going on since our early recorded history in nearly all cultures and societies.

We are never going to live in a perfect world. Many things are no longer sanctioned by our governing bodies or held acceptable to many, slavery, murder, rape, drug addition, etc. but people still continue these practices regardless of laws or morality because there will always be desperation, weakness and primal urges to survive and dominate.

[Leisesturm]

The problem, as I see it, is a complete failure of anti-abortion activists to connect the phenomenon of abortion to real and intractable social ills. Poverty, illiteracy, sexual illiteracy, disenfranchisement. Abortion will not go away until all these, and more, social ills are remediated. So... abortion may one day be as much of a legacy institution as slavery but... things had to get pretty bad vis a vis slavery, before they got better. The Civil War produced over a quarter million casualties and three times that many injuries. And that does not include the millions of slave deaths over the 200 years that slavery was in full force. Without an address of the causes of abortion, simply whining the issue away will do nothing to actually change anything.

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[fireandice1000]

Originally Posted by alphamale

Slavery was legal, but immoral.

Abortion is legal, but also immoral.

The shroud of secrecy around the unregulated abortion death clinics is starting to tear.

Once the American people have access to see what actually goes on at these places, the less support abortion will have.

I expect that as we progress as decent human beings, and start to bear witness to the horrors of abortion mills, the tide will start to turn.

50 years from now, abortion will be looked upon much like the evil that we see slavery as today.

My own opinion of abortion is that it is a plague and signs of a society that has become the living dead. I will also add that abortion cannot be forced upon people nor is it wise to tell another what to do. If a state wants to allow for abortion then so be it. I still have doubts on whether a fetus is a person. I think it has the potential to become a person and that is why I am saddened that it goes on. Realistically, instead of debating whether to ban or support abortion I think society should ask why so much of it goes on to begin with, why so many people are trying to get an abortion. I do agree that Roe Vs. Wade should be toppled. However, that is the farthest to go. States rights are sovereign; there is no such thing as US sovereignty.

Even so, banning abortion will not make a people righteous on its own.