A suburb of Denver became became protesting ground for anti-choice individuals last week, but it wasn’t a doctor’s office or an abortion clinic that they were protesting, but rather the house of a construction subcontractor working on the construction of a Planned Parenthood center in east Denver.
Now, people, come on. Even if you don’t agree with abortion, it’s pretty clear that this man isn’t providing them. He’s earning a living. And, honestly, women’s health care clinics provide lots of essential services to women aside from abortions: like EC, yearly gynecological exams, condoms, etc.
Which brings me around to debating abortion, which is what is happening in the comments section there. I’m very tactfully holding myself back from participating. Like most of your far-left college girls, I love myself a debate or three. So when one of my friends, a woman I know to be VERY pro choice, told me never to debate abortion, because it was pointless, I thought she was insane. However, it makes good sense. Don’t you LOVE those “woah….yeah, totally!” moments?
I don’t remember everything she said, but one of the most important parts was this (paraphrasing my own):
You cannot outlaw abortion unless society:
- did not stigmatize women for being sexual
- provided money, a home, health insurance, food, daycare, babysitting, and a good education for single mothers and their children until the child was 18 — and did not stigmatize a woman for using it
- came up with a 100% fool proof form of birth control for men and women of all ages and made it free and easy to get
- socially stigmatized sexual coercion instead of casually endorsing it
Nobody likes abortion, so that argument is pointless. It is our society in the first place that CAUSES abortion. Instead of outlawing abortion, work on societal reform.
Abortion is an end result. So if you want to stop it, you need to eliminate the things that cause it, poverty, sexual abuse, ignorance.
The folks there? They’re beating a dead horse (a cliche I don’t understand still, seeing as I don’t want to beat either dead or alive horses, or any other animal). They’re not going to change each other’s minds, and likely, people are going to get annoyed.
So, while I won’t be debating it, I did go vote on their little poll. You should too!
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