Posted on Facebook:
Responses:
Friend: One day, you'll be sorry your team is killing babies. It just ain't right... you know that ... and now you are reminded.
ME: You don't see that we hate abortion too. We want to stop it through the proven methods, which can reduce abortion by massive amounts. They are: comprehensive sexual health education and free, or at least inexpensive, birth control.
The problem with outlawing abortion is that it does not stop abortions. If it did, I would probably support such a law. Abortions have been practiced in every human society for all of human history. Sometimes legal, sometimes illegal, the practice has never been successfully prevented. Given the forced choice (forced by hard, ugly reality) of dangerous, brutal, illegal abortions which often kill both mother and fetus or safe, legal abortions which do not harm the mother, I choose that course which is least harmful. In other words, I see myself as prolife. We must save as many lives as we can.
Always remember, I hate abortion. I just hate the more dangerous option of illegal abortion even more.
I am sorry, right now, that human life is being lost. I am doing all I can to minimize that loss. The choices are harsh and terrible, but they are the choices this world inflicts upon us. Like doctors in a triage situation, we each make the best decision we can and then we must live with the consequences. I see no teams or victories in this. I see only the eternal struggle of good people to make hard decisions.
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