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Originally Posted by Azure
Then a poor/hooker/drug addict/teenager/immature/######ed person shouldn't be taking the 'chance' of having a baby, and use the proper methods to NOT have one.
Abortion should never EVER be an easy way out for the people that don't even TRY to use protection.
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Great, fantastic!
Now go tell that to the religious conservatives (the same religious conservatives who are the most vocal opponents to abortion ) to stop their crusade against comprehensive sex education which includes instruction about the effective use of contraceptives.
You can't accuse teenagers of being irresponsible for not using birth control when they were never taught how to acquire and use it in the first place.
A personal anecdote:
About five years ago when I was with my ex-girlfriend, we had a condom break on us one night. We didn't realize it had happened until it was too late. Luckily she was able to get a prescription for the morning-after pill prescribed and filled the next day, but many of the "teenage/immature/######ed" people you're ranting against don't even know that pill exists, since their teachers were not permitted to teach them what it is and how to get it.
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The most staunch pro-choicers are the same people who defer to science on environmental issues, evolution in school etc. yet try to claim that life doesn't begin until a baby takes a breath. How scientific is that observation?
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I don't know any scientifically-minded people who think that an infant isn't alive until it has emerged from the womb and breathing on its own. That sounds like a classic strawman argument used by pro-lifers to exaggerate the claims of their opponents. Obviously at a certain period of its gestation period, when all its organs are fully-functional, you can clearly call a fetus alive.