Root causes? There's only one cause

By figleaf on December 19, 2006 5:36 PM | | Comments (1)

Grepping around in my exported blog archives I discovered that so far I've cited Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon more often than anyone else. Here's why:

So even though they claim to be an organization dedicated to rooting out the "root causes" of abortion--and there's only one, which is unwanted pregnancy...

That pretty much sums it up: the root cause of abortion is unwanted pregnancy.

And when you put it that way, as she does, the only legitimate path to ending abortion stares you right in the face: end unwanted pregnancy.

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Avalon said

I could not agree more... May I also point out that accidental pregnancy can be a huge blessing. I know of several couples/people who have "surprise" children that they didn't want at the start, but now treasure. Therefore, we should educate people on how to avoid unwanted pregnancy, make sure the things they need to do so are easily available and support those of our friends and relatives that choose to have children, whatever their circumstances. That would pretty much solve the unwanted pregnancy issue.

[Actually that's the Side B I want to talk about sometime -- most unplanned pregnancies aren't unwanted ones. But those almost never end in abortion so they're sort of off the table in these conversations. I've mentioned elsewhere, but never drilled down into, my opinion that we could be doing a heck of a lot more to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies by *making it easier, and less stygmatizing, to bear and raise children.* First step might be ditching the gleefully psychopathic "wages of sin" attitude so many abortion opponents manefest. Their outrage seems to focus on how abortion is cheating an 18-year, nine-month punishment for having had sex to begin with. Same with all the "avoid sex or your life will be ruined" talk in most abstinence-oriented education. Thanks, Avalon. --fl]

December 19, 2006 6:59 PM | Reply to this Comment

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