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Originally posted by AKA_Monet
Let's not forget the level 3 sex offenders out there who like to have sex with little girls that are related to them... What I just said is not meant to be funny...
And Amanda you are lucky that DSTChaos is being so nice to you... She can be harsh...
But your argument is rather infantile. It is obvious you really do not know the demographics of women and girls that are getting abortions.
Most of them are not rich white girls who will ruin their modeleque figures who actually can afford the patch and jump around for the latest method of pregancy prevention... (And I won't even go into sexually transmitted infections...)
Most of them are poor women/girls of color who cannot afford basic healthcare that are crack addicted prostituted strippers because they have no family structure to begin with at home...
Usually 40-something year old grandma is taking care of them with 5 other grandchildren running rampant...
And since no one gives a rat's ass about a pregnant one-third black-asian-latino 12 year old incest rape victim, then either her baby gets born on the streets and thrown in the trash can, left at the hospital on very expensive neonatal support or just plain aborted to save money on taxes...
Just ask Bill Bennett on what he thinks about this concept...
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Thank you. You're so right.
As I've mentioned earlier in this thread, I spend a good deal of time with women who are in crisis or unplanned pregnancies. It becomes very easy to see how they got themselves into this situation, and in most cases, I find it very difficult to fault them. Rape and abuse are common. Amanda urges parents to take the responsibility of passing on birth control information to their teenagers, but this is not realistic in most families. The parents may not know any more than the children. The concept of the little teenage girl who chooses to have an abortion because she's too lazy to use birth control or because her boyfriend doesn't want to use a condom is a fallacy.
However, what I do is LISTEN. I meet these women, and I hear their stories, and I care. This is more than many of these women have recieved in their entire lives. And then I remind them that a baby isn't always a death sentence. At risk of sounding cliche- babies are miracles. Abortion and its emotional after effects can often be more stressful on someone's life than a child... I meet women every week who still carry the spiritual scars from abortions they had 15 years ago. And then, once we've talked, I give them real, tangible resources that would support them in their decision to choose life for their child (baby clothes, baby furniture, diapers, a referral to the WIC clinic and an OB/GYN).
And to me, that's how you do pro-life the right way. These stupid tours aren't winning any believers other than a few mentally insane religious zealots.