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Originally Posted by MarchHare
The US, like all the Western democratic nations, already settled the abortion matter decades ago with the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision. Anyone still "fighting" the issue is just wasting effort trying to overturn something that was already decided long ago.
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Please inform Planned Parenthood and the ACLU that the war is over. They can close up shop and go home. Also please inform Congress that they need not stall and stop free votes when President Bush nominates someone to the courts.
This fight will never be over. Human lives are never a wasted effort.
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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Besides, conservative Christians in the US have it completely backwards. If they really wanted to prevent abortions, they'd be fully in favour of teaching comprehensive sex education to teenagers, including how to acquire and effectively use various different methods of birth control. So why haven't they adobted that approach but instead opted for the head-in-the-sand "abstinence only" curriculum? Because Evangelical Christians don't really care about abortion, rather that's just a front for what they actually want to prevent: premarital sex.
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Conservative Christians have a big problem with the government(or their agents) teaching moral values and moral norms to their children. They see that as a prerogative of the parents. If sex education could be taught without touching morality there would be less of a problem. That won't happen. At the very least the instructor will communicate their moral views to the students.
There is no evidence that sexual education curbs pregnancies. There is much evidence that abortion rates go up though.