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curious...
earlier sarah posted about some woman having her 18th kid and how she thinks the world is overpopulated. Who here has read Freakonomics? They did a study that showed abortion reduced crime because it reduced the number of unwanted kids who grow up to be criminals.
Here is the question:
Today the magic powers of tumblr makes you the supreme commander of whatever country you currently reside.
Would the pragmatic nature of legalized abortion be enough for you to support a woman’s right to an abortion? And since this is a discussion about CRIME, if you do not believe such a pragmatic solution is morally justified in your realm of good and evil, HOW would you go about reducing crime?
It’s Friday, what else are you doing besides reading Tumblr? Go.
Legalized abortion is pragmatic for many, many reasons. And I’ve never read Freakonomics but that is an interesting take on abortion, reducing crime. Legalizing abortion makes abortion not a crime — obvious. But my point: if abortion was illegal, it would be a crime, there would be women in prison for getting abortions, doctors in prison for performing abortions and others who assisted could end up imprisoned as well. I need to look it up, but a while ago I posted a story about El Salvador where ALL abortions are illegal. No matter what the circumstance, what the danger of the pregnancy is or anything. Women in El Salvador are thrown into jail for many years for obtaining abortions. But what happens to the fathers? Usually nothing. No surprise there. Imprisoning women is not “pro-life”.
Another thing to mention, those that would be most susceptible to be being imprisoned for an abortion would be those who could not afford to travel outside the country to obtain a termination, so the crime would really only be a crime for poor people. The privileged could travel outside the US to obtain the service.
Abortion is pragmatic as well because it prevents unwanted children from being brought into a very crowded world. Resources are dwindling and the expense of raising a child is going up. I also have some very strong views on fertility treatments — you could spend those thousands you use to produce your own biological child to adopt a child that desperately needs a home. But that’s another argument for another time. Once again, being lazy, but 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 children in our country live in poverty. Not saying we should not try to help these children, but why should more enter into this arena? Also, how practical and pragmatic is it for a 12 year old to give birth? Not very. Another reason abortion should never be illegal, many young girls who end up pregnant get that way because of rape, incest, molestation.
I understand people’s moral objection to abortion — so don’t you get one. But making it a crime is impractical and cruel. I didn’t even go into how many women would die from botched and unsafe procedures.