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gergroy on 21 August 2012
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richardhutnik said:
gergroy said:
richardhutnik said:
gergroy said:
I think you are exaggerating quite a bit with your argument here. Now, I don't agree with outlawing abortion so I'm not going to defend it. However, if abortion isn't an option then I would think most women would just go through adoption agencies, I don't think you would find many women dumping babies in dumpsters. When couples adopt, they also agree to pay for all the healthcare related to the birth of the child.

So, yeah... a bit of an exaggeration.

I could show example after example of the GOP slashing funding to social programs.  I would like you to show where the GOP would support any sort of funding to make this so.

Here is the GOP platform on abortion, where they speak of a pro-life agenda:

http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Republican_Party_Abortion.htm

 

Again, what is this "Pro-life agenda" the GOP has?

did you even read my post? because your response doesn't seem to have anything to do with what I said...

I read your post.  I was trying not to take it as what I thought i read it as.  If you outlaw abortion then there wouldn't be a problem with unwanted births, because almost all children put up for adoption would find homes to take care of the kids.  Currently there are over 130,000 children waiting to be adopted today: http://www.chacha.com/question/how-many-children-remain-unadopted-in-america

Add over 30,000 more a year due to forced pregnancy due to rape and how much do you think it would go up?

I mention GOP policy, because they are the one pushing views seen here by some, that the government isn't supposed to do anything to address the issue.


like I said, I don't think abortion should be outlawed.  My point is that there is already a system in place that handles unwanted pregnancies which includes paying for healthcare and such for the pregnant mother without government funding.  If you actually read my post, I was actually just commenting on how ridiculous your exageration of mothers ditching babies in dumpsters and arresting rape victims was.