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Originally Posted by Scott S
I think you missed my point, you chose one of the examples extremists do to enhance the argument. I chose a scenario that happens often out of irresponsibility.
The pro life crowd is upset about babies getting killed, they are the most upset the government using tax dollars to do so. If the abortion mills would charge the MBA enough to cover the gratis work done on the 13 year old many of the protests would end.
Scott S
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Some would choose to inerpret your statement as implying that its more about the dollars than the deaths. IOW people can choose to kill babies all they want as long as you ain't payin for it with your tax dollars!
I prefer however to understand it as saying - if abortion was made pohibitively expensive (it should cost
waaay more than carrying to term and giving birth) and only the established cases of acceptable abortion per a set of well defined criteria (ie rape of a minor) were subsidized out of the surplus, then all would be well? Sounds good to me.
PS; I must also add that I do believe that past a certain point in the development of the fetus, NO abortion is acceptable unless continued pregnancy and giving birth would be fatal to the mother and / or the baby. That opens up a whole 'nother can of worms, though - the argument about when a cluster of growing and dividing cells actually becomes a baby human being.