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In reply to the discussion: I'm not pro-abortion. [View all]The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)So for the same reason that I would like to reduce cancer, heart failure, diabetes I would like to reduce any medical procedure that carries risk. I am not passing judgement on anyone. Judgement is not my place.
Also it is a compromise position. The right wants to end all abortion. Our society and government is based on compromise. We can meet in the middle and solve other problems which would help our society. The abortion issue is dividing this nation and I would like to find a middle ground.
What I know, is that passing law will not work. It did not work in the past and it will not work now. I am old enough to remember pre Roe.
My example is Brazil. Brazil is a 90 some percent Catholic nation. Abortion is illegal in Brazil. Abortion is rampant in Brazil.
"Every year an estimated 1.4 million Brazilian girls and women take the law into their hands, and often put their health at risk, to terminate their pregnancies. This gives Brazil an abortion rate much higher than that of the United States, even though one country allows the procedure and the other all but bans it." Baltimore Sun
The vast majority of abortions are the result of unintended pregnancies. I know captain obvious right! However:
"A new study by investigators at Washington University reports that providing birth control to women at no cost substantially reduces unplanned pregnancies and cuts abortion rates by a range of 62 to 78 percent compared to the national rate." Washington University
We can reduce abortion and we can reduce medical procedure risk and we can bridge this nation wide divide.
Why won't the right help us? The only path you can take with that question are paths that lead you to very negative descriptions of the right. Would the right even use the free birth control? They won't get a vaccine.