Sean Renaud
The West Coast Pop
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I'm not looking up the numbers right now. But Rape and Incest make up something like 2 or 3 percent. Third trimester abortions are similarly rare. Both sides are trying to play your emotions on things that happen so infrequently that a case by case basis would actually work just fine.Why not?
i Assume your position is that choice should be baked in. I don’t disagree. But I don’t understand why you’d damage your position with people that do by ignoring the fact that abortion isn’t just lazy birth control.
The overwhelming majority of abortions happen in the first twelve weeks and if you read the studies they are economic though women find different ways of phrasing it. To me personally 'I want to finish school', 'I want to be farther in my career' and 'I can't afford to care for a child' are all the same statement with slightly different qualifiers.
Passing equal pay for equal work, raising the minimum wage, paid maternal leave, better access to birth control and other women's health, better sex ed (something the Right actively fights against) are all perfectly viable choices. However as is painfully obvious to anybody paying attention preventing abortions isn't REALLY the goal because that would start with preventing unwanted pregnancies. The goal is keeping women in check.