What's your Abortion Policy?
Don't get any bimbos pregnant. Godawful. I'll have to deal with that soon enough. Like living my own adolescence all over again. The boy's only eight now, but time flies. Ah, at least he's not a girl. Gotta be worse to be a pregnant bimbo than the one who impregnated her.
I grudgingly call myself "pro choice." I'm astonished that we're still having this argument. There are enough people already. Accidental pregnancies can be dispatched safely, legally, and with minimal cost. I'm generally against socialized medicine, but I make an exception here. Certainly the one-time $350 fee is preferable to the taxpayers than the tens of thousands of dollars per year for 18 years that it will cost the taxpayers to nurture the unwanted progeny of a parent not yet ready to be a parent. And let's not even get started on the big dollars we'll spend on incarceration of the adult which evolves from the unloved and unwanted child.
Someone mentioned parental notification. I strongly agree with that and would vote for its requirement in a binding referendum. We're a very litigious society. You can't even get a nose job without a parent's signature if you're under 18. No reason to exclude fetal abortions. No parent will force his child to abort. Some might refuse to give the consent to abort, but we'll have to live with that. Yes I recognize that a small subset of pregnant teens might then resort to illegal, unsafe back-alley abortions, but you have to take the crunchy with the smooth. Parents are blindsided enough by the increasingly collectivist rules of society without having to accept medical doctrinaire. On parental notification, I'm a strict conservative--Mostly because children are just that: children. If my child leaves a flaming bag of shit on your doorstep and rings a bell and runs away, I get sued, not him. That's the reality and, frankly, it's fair since parents are morally and ethically responsible for their progeny. All the more reason for a liberal abortion policy--but overall I'm pretty much with the Liberal mindset on this issue. Provide funding for those who cannot afford abortions, so long as we can make sure that they're clean and safe, of course, but do not force people to abort if they have genuine inhibitions about it.
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