Reply #208: there is no single "root cause of abortion"

[npincus]

Your heart is certainly in the right place, but simply by addressing the social ills which motivate some women to seek abortions, this cannot and will not ever adddress a reason many women/ girls find themselves with unwanted pregnancies: passion, heat-of-the-moment decision-making, carelessness, and the old "just this once". I personally know at least 3 women this happened to: women from middle-class to upper middle class backgrounds, educated, intelligent, informed on the subject of safe sex, with access to birth control that they just didn't use "that time". All are people who should have 'known better'. Further, some forms of birth control are not 100% effective. As long as sex and passion exist, pregnancy will occur and unfortunately, pregnancies that are not always wanted. Either you support a woman's legal right to have one, or you don't.

A "manifesto" purporting rid the world of abortion simply by making the world a better place is unrealistic to the max.



Instead of seeking an Authoritarian and Counter-Productive ban, we seek to attack the root cause of abortion, the reason(s) why women want and need to have an abortion in the first place, and thus remove the economic and social strain when it comes to having a baby."
- The Real Pro-Life Manifesto