Abortion shouldn't be an easy or first option. Ever.
But I want some answers from all the pro-life people.
* Because if contraceptives aren't easily available, especially to young people...
* Because if birth control is not allowed to be taught in our schools...
* Because teenagers/young adults will continue to have normal hormonal levels...
* Because rape can result in pregnancy....
* Because young girls can be talked into sex against their better judgement...
Then who is going to take care of the babies who are born?
Does the responsibility lie solely on the unwed young mother?
Will society provide her with enough money and stability to either 1) stay at home with the young child, or 2) provide stable, loving and nurturing professional day-care?
Will society provide the medical care necessary to ensure this young child's healthy upbringing?
Everyone that are all pro-life also seem to be anti-welfare.
All the Christian "right-to-life" supporters only seem interested in that fetus' future until it is born.
Then suddenly it's a "drain on the system"
It is "illegitimate children"
It is then the problem of "single parent families".
Can you please come up some way to be not so incredibly two-faced about this?
If you want to decrease abortions, then teach young people about contraceptives, and encourage them to use them. You're not going to increase the number of teenagers having sex - you just going to prevent more pregnancies.
Take care of the babies who are born unplanned, out of wedlock, etc. Are there enough families to adopt (not simply foster-care) them? Make the connections happen, and make them convenient and cheap enough that it can happen quickly and actually make a positive impact in the infant's life.
If you are against abortion, then YOU volunteer to adopt one of these babies.
There are no easy answers - but it is also not a black and white question. Quit making it such.
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