I don't disagree, but on this particular issue, I'm a one-battle-at-a-time kind of guy. Abortion is a moral evil so extreme that the only remedy I can see is to eliminate it first and worry about the consequences later. Reestablishing family togetherness and monogamy as the societal norm would certainly improve child welfare, but that is a generational task and it doesn't mean we should wait a generation before outlawing abortion.
That may be shortsighted of me, but I can't get past the fact that in the United States alone this practice has already exterminated 85 million lives that could have been lived, 85 million people who might have been the next Isaac Newton or the next Shakespeare, however unlikely. Yes, many of those children may have grown up in poverty, but they would have grown up. Instead they were denied the opportunity to enjoy a life, and the opportunity to contribute, and we have been denied the benefits of what they might have contributed. Enough is enough.
I don't disagree, but on this particular issue, I'm a one-battle-at-a-time kind of guy. Abortion is a moral evil so extreme that the only remedy I can see is to eliminate it first and worry about the consequences later. Reestablishing family togetherness and monogamy as the societal norm would certainly improve child welfare, but that is a generational task and it doesn't mean we should wait a generation before outlawing abortion.
That may be shortsighted of me, but I can't get past the fact that in the United States alone this practice has already exterminated 85 million lives that could have been lived, 85 million people who might have been the next Isaac Newton or the next Shakespeare, however unlikely. Yes, many of those children may have grown up in poverty, but they would have grown up. Instead they were denied the opportunity to enjoy a life, and the opportunity to contribute, and we have been denied the benefits of what they might have contributed. Enough is enough.