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, June 2, 2007
4:41 PM
The principles that guarantee a woman's right to conduct her affairs and direct her own life in the way she chooses are the same principles that promote safety of full-term babies still in their mother's womb, even from mothers. Abortion of a full-term baby is every bit infanticide under the law, and nothing else. (A life lost in a medical emergency while trying to save both people is another matter.)
To argue against those principles promotes the idea that women, as individuals, have no independent rights either, and is ultimately self-defeating.
Nothing in the principles of a right to be free from authoritarian government defines where to draw a line cutting off babies, so no case is protected in spirit from applying these principles of individual rights to make human judgments of morality and character. But in these cases, the mechanics of law would become pernicious to society.
This is why every woman's liberty ought to be protected — because if empowered to control their lives, they will choose not to become pregnant until they want to bring a baby to term. That liberty applies to everyone equally — we have to figure out how to balance that by empowering women against male aggression, and by enabling enough individuals to offer positive choices when accidents and crimes happen.
support every woman's right to plan pregnancy
Women have every right to choose to plan their reproduction.The principles that guarantee a woman's right to conduct her affairs and direct her own life in the way she chooses are the same principles that promote safety of full-term babies still in their mother's womb, even from mothers. Abortion of a full-term baby is every bit infanticide under the law, and nothing else. (A life lost in a medical emergency while trying to save both people is another matter.)
To argue against those principles promotes the idea that women, as individuals, have no independent rights either, and is ultimately self-defeating.
Nothing in the principles of a right to be free from authoritarian government defines where to draw a line cutting off babies, so no case is protected in spirit from applying these principles of individual rights to make human judgments of morality and character. But in these cases, the mechanics of law would become pernicious to society.
This is why every woman's liberty ought to be protected — because if empowered to control their lives, they will choose not to become pregnant until they want to bring a baby to term. That liberty applies to everyone equally — we have to figure out how to balance that by empowering women against male aggression, and by enabling enough individuals to offer positive choices when accidents and crimes happen.
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