Christian Democrats in the United States
Domestic Issues - Abortion Make abortion undesirable by providing healthcare, family planning services, well-managed adoption programs, education and child care, a living wage, and justice. Offer your hand, and people will choose life. As for moral edge-cases like the doctor saving the mother's life, we support the right of human beings to make difficult decisions in service of life to the best of their abilities when those decisions are presented by the face of death. Outside of these cases, regardless of our individual views on personal rights, we maintain that abortion is never a good choice in the wealthiest country in the world. We believe it is possible to construct a society in which abortion is not absolutely prohibited by law, but no one wants one. We seek to resolve real-world problems to decrease demand for abortion, and not to divide people with our religious views. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Saturday, May 5, 2007
12:07 PM
This division is similar to the way colonial Belgians divided the Hutu and Tutsi by setting an arbitrary measurement against a wide diversity of African physical features, dividing one people artificially into two, who could then be played against each other and controlled. (Hotel Rwanda) These artificially divided people later fell into a psychotic civil war when the colonial apparatus fell apart.
Regardless of your position on rights, the only way to do something constructive to stop abortion is to change the terms of the debate on another level so we are not divided. Don't make it a fight between people for rights. Make it a fight between people who offer to support and raise the kids that the woman feels she does not want, no matter who she is, and the people who would encourage her to get an abortion just to maintain her rights.
divide and conquer
The "right" and "left" parties are polarized because each one tries to set the terms of public debate with its own argument that "feels" right, but those are two different sets of terms, so they can never reach a solution. To the engineers of these political discussions, it isn't as important what they mean as how they say it.This division is similar to the way colonial Belgians divided the Hutu and Tutsi by setting an arbitrary measurement against a wide diversity of African physical features, dividing one people artificially into two, who could then be played against each other and controlled. (Hotel Rwanda) These artificially divided people later fell into a psychotic civil war when the colonial apparatus fell apart.
Regardless of your position on rights, the only way to do something constructive to stop abortion is to change the terms of the debate on another level so we are not divided. Don't make it a fight between people for rights. Make it a fight between people who offer to support and raise the kids that the woman feels she does not want, no matter who she is, and the people who would encourage her to get an abortion just to maintain her rights.
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