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]
Monday, March 30, 2009
10:58 AM
- Every girl's visit to every doctor would have to be monitored.
- By equality of law, no protection of privacy with a doctor in any context for anyone.
- Government would require registration of pregnancy, perhaps even the attempt.
Without these measures, how would you expect any law against abortion to be effective?
Even with these measures, and probably because of the increase of government power over details of peoples' lives, people would have less faith and belief in government than they do today, which is to say, they would have none at all.
A government with these kinds of powers in this context would exercise it in others. It would further increase the resistance of everyday people to being governed at all.
Yes, it is a slippery slope, but it is one that history shows is true. The less the government respects its people, the less that government is constituted of the people and run by them and for them, the more the people resist, whether in outward ways or in covert spirit.
The government power needed to enforce a ban on all abortion would piss so many people off, that more people would end up believing in their hearts that abortion was okay, because of their natural resistance to being bossed around by others in every sphere of life.
Abortion will only stop when people believe it is wrong. Law, punishment and forced repetition of words will not make people believe that. That will only have the opposite effect from what is intended.
So how does the world change so that people believe life is sacred and abortion is wrong?
First, we must stop rape and the mentality among men that they have a right to procreate by force, whether that force is direct and brutal, economic or psychological. Women must be encouraged to assert their rights to control their reproductive cycle before conception.
Second, government would have to show that life is sacred and killing children in other contexts is wrong, like war. We would have to commit our wills to work for peace and make war an obsolete relic of earlier ages. If there were no battlefield for humanity, if we allow our love to be strong enough to heal the conflicts of the ages and promote all life and culture, people would naturally see life as valuable.
Third, we must work toward a global economy in which basic resources such as food, shelter and knowledge are essentially free, or at least, easy to obtain by anyone who tries. There is such an open field of new knowledge, tools and goods for free market competition that some margin of safety for basic necessities certainly does not qualify as a communist system. It's just what caring people would do for those in need.
If pregnant women feel they can raise a child in a healthy environment, they will. We have to work toward that world. It's the only way to stop abortion.
When Jesus said, "blessed are the peacemakers" and "the meek shall inherit the earth," he did not refer to the "peace between man and God" as some would divert us to believe. Jesus said that some wars would come to pass as humanity transformed into something new, but did not say that wars were necessary until the end of time.
Jesus wanted peace in his time and he gave people the opportunity, but they refused. Luckily we still have that opportunity, and we always will.
making illegal will not make people believe it is wrong
If we make abortion illegal, this will not cause everyone to believe that abortion is wrong. This is the central mistake of those who believe in the power of human law. You cannot legislate belief. The government power needed to stop people from getting and giving abortions would be overwhelming. Imagine what it would take:- Every girl's visit to every doctor would have to be monitored.
- By equality of law, no protection of privacy with a doctor in any context for anyone.
- Government would require registration of pregnancy, perhaps even the attempt.
Without these measures, how would you expect any law against abortion to be effective?
Even with these measures, and probably because of the increase of government power over details of peoples' lives, people would have less faith and belief in government than they do today, which is to say, they would have none at all.
A government with these kinds of powers in this context would exercise it in others. It would further increase the resistance of everyday people to being governed at all.
Yes, it is a slippery slope, but it is one that history shows is true. The less the government respects its people, the less that government is constituted of the people and run by them and for them, the more the people resist, whether in outward ways or in covert spirit.
The government power needed to enforce a ban on all abortion would piss so many people off, that more people would end up believing in their hearts that abortion was okay, because of their natural resistance to being bossed around by others in every sphere of life.
Abortion will only stop when people believe it is wrong. Law, punishment and forced repetition of words will not make people believe that. That will only have the opposite effect from what is intended.
So how does the world change so that people believe life is sacred and abortion is wrong?
First, we must stop rape and the mentality among men that they have a right to procreate by force, whether that force is direct and brutal, economic or psychological. Women must be encouraged to assert their rights to control their reproductive cycle before conception.
Second, government would have to show that life is sacred and killing children in other contexts is wrong, like war. We would have to commit our wills to work for peace and make war an obsolete relic of earlier ages. If there were no battlefield for humanity, if we allow our love to be strong enough to heal the conflicts of the ages and promote all life and culture, people would naturally see life as valuable.
Third, we must work toward a global economy in which basic resources such as food, shelter and knowledge are essentially free, or at least, easy to obtain by anyone who tries. There is such an open field of new knowledge, tools and goods for free market competition that some margin of safety for basic necessities certainly does not qualify as a communist system. It's just what caring people would do for those in need.
If pregnant women feel they can raise a child in a healthy environment, they will. We have to work toward that world. It's the only way to stop abortion.
When Jesus said, "blessed are the peacemakers" and "the meek shall inherit the earth," he did not refer to the "peace between man and God" as some would divert us to believe. Jesus said that some wars would come to pass as humanity transformed into something new, but did not say that wars were necessary until the end of time.
Jesus wanted peace in his time and he gave people the opportunity, but they refused. Luckily we still have that opportunity, and we always will.
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