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, October 6, 2007
1:36 PM
rape and abortion
It would seem the unequal subject of rape appears frequently in discussions of abortion. Beyond the hypothetical cases, the two seem to pertain to the same base issue, manifest in one individual's attempt to control another, an other, the conscious negation of the presence of another consciousness, whether formed or only formative. Those against rape and those against abortion often "seem" to be on opposite "sides" of society. Men teach their boys they are entitled to sex, even if they have to take it by force, and women teach their daughters that any children sired by such brigands wouldn't matter, so subtly saying to the daughters and sons that their own lives are not worth living — that the children living now would have been better off not being born. And in so doing, do not both of these positions, when considered opposites, give tacit approval to rape through hopelessness, and tacit approval to abortion through hypocrisy? As such they both become subtle positions for rape and for abortion in the eyes of children, and people are drawn apart. How are such children to learn how to step up to the plate and carry on society when all the old people are gone? For it is to protect and direct one's own conscious person, not another's, that we are each given our will. Violence is in any way a violation, against any of these "sides" of conflict into which we throw ourselves. Do not exchange one for another — there are other ways out.> detail, links and comments >>
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