Abortion and Ignorance
Miles Lacey (Kapi-Mana News 4.5.13) says: “Nothing amuses me more than reading the hypocritical wailing of anti-abortionists condemning the evils of abortion when they are the ones who are largely responsible for creating the problem in the first place.”
Really?
In the first place I would have thought the problem of abortion starts with two people deciding to have unprotected sex (or taking the lesser risk of protected sex) when they are not ready to become parents.
It seems to me that, in our society, some individuals all too readily use excuses to try and lessen the blame for their own decisions.
Miles Lacey puts a degree of culpability for abortion on “sleazy old money-grabbing perverts in the Vatican and Salt Lake City...”
Such a sweeping and derogatory statement is contemptible in my opinion.
Lacey accuses anti-abortionists of ignorance and wants them to “teach their children about how to use artificial contraception”. That’s an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. Far better that all children should be taught by their parents (and at school) about how to make ethical judgements and accept personal responsibility.
From my point of view, any justification of abortion is just an excuse.
Really?
In the first place I would have thought the problem of abortion starts with two people deciding to have unprotected sex (or taking the lesser risk of protected sex) when they are not ready to become parents.
It seems to me that, in our society, some individuals all too readily use excuses to try and lessen the blame for their own decisions.
Miles Lacey puts a degree of culpability for abortion on “sleazy old money-grabbing perverts in the Vatican and Salt Lake City...”
Such a sweeping and derogatory statement is contemptible in my opinion.
Lacey accuses anti-abortionists of ignorance and wants them to “teach their children about how to use artificial contraception”. That’s an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. Far better that all children should be taught by their parents (and at school) about how to make ethical judgements and accept personal responsibility.
From my point of view, any justification of abortion is just an excuse.
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