Reply #69: First of all, it isn't only an issue of "abstinence" or "non-abstinence".

[Carolab]

A person who is raped isn't "not abstaining", for example. And then, of course, there are medically necessary abortions.

But, to say that faith will stop a horny young person from getting pregnant is just naive. Most girls will stop themselves (if they do) because of a fear of getting pregnant; others will just succumb to the heat of hormonally-raging desires and hope for the best, UNLESS they have contraception.

Most abortions are due to unwanted pregnancies: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/ib_0599.html

These greedy Republicans object to two things here:

1. They don't want to have to pay for someone else's contraception in the form of state-sponsored contraception (or higher insurance premiums).
2. They don't want to have to pay for someone else's abortion in the form of state-sponsored abortion (or higher insurance premiums).

A lot of these unwanted pregnancies are poor people who can't support themselves let alone another kid. They can't pay for contraception or their insurance won't cover it (if they can even afford that). And they can't pay for abortion either.

Once that poor kid is born, these greedly Republicans don't give a RIP about its well-being--or the ability of its parent(s) to survive with another mouth to feed. They cut funding for education (from cradle to grave), for housing and for public assistance or health care. They outsource jobs. What's left for these people and their kids? Illegal abortions which can kill or injure the mother for life (and greedy Republicans don't care), or people who have to live on slave wages to survive (and greedy Republicans applaud this state of affairs).

Get it?

It has NOTHING, NOT A DAMN THING, to do with being "pro life". As Howard Dean says, being pro-life means that you care about the child AFTER it is born, not just before.