I understand what you are saying, except for the abortion aspect. Abortion is murder. That’s like saying we should just ignore murder because we aren’t being forced to murder.
Some conservatives don’t make that connection between governmental non-intervention in the economic domain and governmental non-intervention in the private domain. Perhaps they do when it comes to selling and drinking large-sized sodas, but not when it comes to the most personal moral and religious values of a woman, her family, and her faith, in consultation with her doctor. Rather, they feel their own moral ideology must be legislated and applied to everyone since it trumps other religious or secular moral ideologies.
Let’s see. I decided to be sexually active but recognized that I was in college and unable to support a child. So I called a clinic, got a PAP, breast exam, and general physical. Then went over my options, took a few days to do independent research and think it over, made a decision, went back and got a prescription, which I refill every three months and remember to take every night.Liberals have a hard time with the concept of personal responsibility and this extends far past the above issues.
You really don’t think that conservatives have casual sex and contracept?
My wife is conservative, has never used contraception, and was a virgin when we got married. That destroys the liberal claim that all women use contraception and can’t live without abortions.
I see abortion as murder. Murder is illegal. If I am against you being murdered, how can I not be against an unborn child being murdered and how can I be against legislation that would make either one of your murders illegal?
Yeah, but I didn’t make that claim. And what you wrote didn’t actually address what I said…
You decided, so why should we have to foot the bill for your decision. If I decide to drive my car without seat belts, should I expect for you to foot the bill if I get seriously injured or die because of my choice?
You don’t, because I’m on birth control. If I wasn’t on bc I’d probably have an abortion, and if that wasn’t legal I’d give the kid up, and then you would be footing the bill for yet another child in the system.
Most of the ones who get abortions use contraception. That’s why the ones who use contraception are the same ones that insist that they can’t go without abortions.
If a couple adopted your hypothetical child, wouldn’t they foot the bill?
Unless my child was one of the many who don’t get adopted.
Why not?
Why not what? We have a very, very broken adoption system. There are plenty of kids who need homes, plenty of families that want to give them homes, but because of the bureaucracy it takes years and tens of thousands of dollars, sometimes more, to adopt. Sadly, many times it is just cheaper and faster to adopt internationally.
So, if your mom decided to kill you, we should defend her right to make that choice.
But it’s okay to foot the bill for an unwed pregnant teenager/woman’s pregnancy? See, some people have a problem paying for ‘other people’s’ contraception. Others have a problem paying for other people’s children. Still others have a problem “paying for other people’s healthcare”. Still others have a problem paying for anything and expecting others to pay. There’s always going to be an issue with where the money in the pot is going. That’s part of living in a community full of people with different values and beliefs.