For Democrats, Rethinking Abortion Runs Risks

I want every opponent of "abortion rights" to answer a few questions:

1. What specifically do you oppose? RU486? Just late term abortions? All abortions for disease or disability? Abortions for gender preference? Teen abortions without parental consent?

2. How do you morally justify forcing women (or girls) to carry a child to term and to give birth against her will?

3. What criminal punishments do you advocate when a woman seeks or gets an illegal abortion? For her? For the "doctor?"

4. What are the consequences for the male lover who advocated or paid for an illegal abortion?

5. What are you doing to encourage the use of birth control among young, lower income, and the poorly educated?

6. What are you advocating to make men and women take more responsibility for birth control as well as motherhood and fatherhood? And to improve American familial relationships?

7. What policies are you advocating to help adoptions, orphans, and affordable childcare for women of all income levels???

8. What structures do you identify (or support) in our society that help women mourn miscarriages?

I am FURIOUS that politicians and even citizens go around saying that they are pro-life, anti-abortion, and oppose abortion rights when they DO and SAY NOTHING to address the many economic and social issues that make abortion an appealing option for people (not just women, mind you).

IT IS SO EASY TO SAY THAT YOU OPPOSE ABORTION WITHOUT PROVIDING SOLUTIONS FOR THE ALTERNATIVE. I am tired and angry about the irresponsible moralizing that people take part in when it comes to women's reproductive "freedoms." They are rarely asked to defend the positions that they want to impose, and that's not democracy, that's moral tyranny.

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