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SadistDave -> RE: Is UNFETTERED ACCESS to family planning services (incl. abortion ) too extreme? (3/28/2012 4:59:12 PM)
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There's nothing wrong with it. In fact the government DOES support family planning by providing literature that discusses abstinance, contraception, and health care literature for expectant mothers. It also provides aid for poor people who cannot afford proper health care for an unborn child, and food subsidies for mothers.
The primary issue with abortion is this: If you have the choice to concieve, and the choice to either carry a child to term or terminate it's life then you should also be expected to abide by your own choices. They are individual choices that you yourself made, not the government. Since the government represents the people, what you are really saying is that you want everyone in the country to share the responsibility of your decision without allowing them to disagree or protest.
Another problem though is this. If a private citizen claims they have right to anything, then it is any other citizens right to have access to their private information concerning that "anything". It's called Freedom of Information. That means that if some woman gets an abortion paid for by the government, then her medical records surrounding that abortion are publicly accessable because any private citizen can hold the government financially accountable through FoA.
There are some concerns about the government having the right to legislate an activity it is paying for that I doubt you would understand, but I'll try. If the government is paying for it, they get to choose what services they will pay for, how those services will be administered, what proceedures will be used, and ultimately they have the right to mandate the activity itself. In short, by allowing the government into a womans womb, it is a short road to controlling a womans actual ability to reproduce. Ie: The government pays for abortions and the cost becomes untennable. The next step is to legislate that any woman who has multiple abortions might be required to have their tubes tied. If that does not solve the problem, then people who are unable to financially support a child may be required to undergo sterilization.
Look up the eugenics movement sometime. Progressive liberals have been trying to find a way to sterilize and breed out minorities that way for over a century by controlling reproduction. If you look into the early days of the movement, they were very open about the fact that they would have to find a way to allow government access to reproduction. Government funded abortions is exactly the sort of vehicle they dreamed about 100 years ago as a method of eliminating the poor; specifically blacks.
-SD-
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