Originally Posted by toretorden

I think I agree with you and I do think that taking reponsibility of your life and the situation you're in and then owning up to that is admirable and something people should strive for. Another popular example of people who don't that I see on the TV are fat people who blame their genes. They turn the problem from being caused by behaviour which they can control to being caused by genes which they can't so that they can feel happily helpless about it. However, no matter how you twist and turn it, genes don't make you fat .. It's eating 6 pounds of junk food every day that does it.



Abortion is a moral dilemma so politicians go about it with moral arguments. Of course we have morale in politics. The pro-life way would be by passing a law that forbids abortions .. I just don't think the "tough luck kiddo" is a good enough moral basis for such a law.

To me, thinking practically, I think of unwanted pregnancy as a problem in society. Abortion provides a means to help society deal with that problem. Then you have people who want to keep the problem and remove the solution. Why? It just seems counter-productive. I'm all for people taking responsibility of themselves and their actions and as you probably know, I've been in a sticky situation already and I owned up to it. That doesn't mean I would prefer to have no choice in the matter.