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The problem with closing more clinics is that is does nothing to address the demand for abortions. People will just turn to alternative means, or in the case of South Texas, they will go across the border into Mexico. If lawmakers really wanted to decrease the number of abortions, they would look at spending more time, energy and money in preventing unwanted pregnancies through education and social services.
Many lives will be saved to be impoverished, neglected, abused...
M'kay.
If I am interpreting your point here correctly, then it is worth noting that a similar argument to yours could be used to justify elective painless infanticide in the event of a shortage of adoptive parents.
The problem with closing more clinics is that is does nothing to address the demand for abortions. People will just turn to alternative means, or in the case of South Texas, they will go across the border into Mexico. If lawmakers really wanted to decrease the number of abortions, they would look at spending more time, energy and money in preventing unwanted pregnancies through education and social services.
I don't see why lawmakers can't do both of these things.
hearing some scumbag compare them terminating a first trimester pregnancy to beheading a newborn makes my blood boil.
Abortion and infanticide are obviously not the same thing, but for the record, some individuals (such as Peter Singer, Michael Tooley, Mary Anne Warren, the authors of the After-Birth Abortion paper, et cetera) do not consider both embryos/fetuses and infants to be persons/worthy of rights.
Lives? To wallow in foster care or be raised by people who don't want them?
Yes, lives, and if these offspring will be dissatisfied with their lives, then they should be able to decide for themselves whether or not to end their own lives, rather than to have someone else make this decision for them.
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