As I was pointing out before, the abortion issue has been made into a vivid side-show to distract people from the real issues, such as the socialism that our country is adopting. And abortion is merely a symptom; unwanted pregancy is the PROBLEM, and neither camp is at all interested in reducing the PROBLEM, as then they don't have an issue to gain power from.
The problem is unwanted pregnancy. Why does that happen?
- Parents have few if any morals to teach their children.
- Parents have morals, but fail to pass them down to their children.
- Parents deceive themselves into believing that their children won't have sex until their 22nd birthday. In reality, girls having babies at 15 is increadibly common, and it isn't even unusual for 11 and 12 year olds to have babies.
- Parents fail to supervise their children, which leads to the children having sex as "something to do".
- Supervised, out-of-home activities have been systematically shut down instead of managed, leaving kids hours of free time to try to fill.
- There remains a large stigma against birth control, some of it inspired by religion (looking to generate more followers of it's own faith), that keeps many sexually-active teens from using it.
- The "Morning After" pill, a pill that prevents *conception* (not to be confused with RU486, an abortion pill), is discouraged by the "big" camps because it's a threat to their power base.
But, you see, the above problems are difficult to deal with, so instead of dealing with them, both camps are trying to legislate their own agenda onto the rest of us. Neither side is fighting for freedom or liberty, though many on both sides believe that they are.
If we were to address the above issues, we could shrink the number of abortions down to a level that they would be politically insignificant. Which is the last thing most people want, sadly.
-Troy