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kyburgThere are days it isn't good to be right.
Enter George W. Bush in 2001. One would expect the abortion rate to continue its consistent course downward, if not plunge. Instead, the opposite happened.
Two-thirds of women who have abortions cite "inability to afford a child" as their primary reason (Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life). In the Bush presidency, unemployment rates increased half again. Not since Herbert Hoover had there been a net loss of jobs during a presidency until the current administration. Average real incomes decreased, and for seven years the minimum wage has not been raised to match inflation. With less income, many prospective mothers fear another mouth to feed.
Half of all women who abort say they do not have a reliable mate. And men who are jobless usually do not marry. In the 16 states, there were 16,392 fewer marriages than the year before, and 7,869 more abortions. As male unemployment increases, marriages fall and abortion rises.
Women worry about health care for themselves and their children. Since 5.2 million more people have no health insurance now than before this presidency -- with women of childbearing age overrepresented in those 5.2 million -- abortion increases.
My wife and I know -- as does my son David -- that doctors, nurses, hospitals, medical insurance, special schooling and parental employment are crucial for a special child. David attended the Kentucky School for the Blind, as well as schools for children with cerebral palsy and other disabilities. He was mainstreamed in public schools as well. We have two other sons and five grandchildren, and we know that every mother, every father and every child needs public and family support.
Repeat after me.
If you do not address the reasons a women seeks an abortion, you will NEVER stop them.
Anything else - including legislation to prevent them - only feeds someone's ego and does nothing.
You want to end abortion, you have to end the need for them. And that is expensive, labor-intensive, intelligence-stifling, I-hate-these-idiots work. And more of it. Over generations, and longer.
And a lot of the time, you have to accept the fact that there just isn't enough to go around. And these "parents" are making the best decision they can, with what resources they have.
Abortions are cheaper than public education, socialized medicine and all that other jazz. And in a culture obsessed with the bottom line, that's what we have to work with.
Pro-life in deed, not merely in word, means we need a president who will do something about jobs, health insurance and support for mothers.
Yeah, I'm there.
Enter George W. Bush in 2001. One would expect the abortion rate to continue its consistent course downward, if not plunge. Instead, the opposite happened.
Two-thirds of women who have abortions cite "inability to afford a child" as their primary reason (Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life). In the Bush presidency, unemployment rates increased half again. Not since Herbert Hoover had there been a net loss of jobs during a presidency until the current administration. Average real incomes decreased, and for seven years the minimum wage has not been raised to match inflation. With less income, many prospective mothers fear another mouth to feed.
Half of all women who abort say they do not have a reliable mate. And men who are jobless usually do not marry. In the 16 states, there were 16,392 fewer marriages than the year before, and 7,869 more abortions. As male unemployment increases, marriages fall and abortion rises.
Women worry about health care for themselves and their children. Since 5.2 million more people have no health insurance now than before this presidency -- with women of childbearing age overrepresented in those 5.2 million -- abortion increases.
My wife and I know -- as does my son David -- that doctors, nurses, hospitals, medical insurance, special schooling and parental employment are crucial for a special child. David attended the Kentucky School for the Blind, as well as schools for children with cerebral palsy and other disabilities. He was mainstreamed in public schools as well. We have two other sons and five grandchildren, and we know that every mother, every father and every child needs public and family support.
Repeat after me.
If you do not address the reasons a women seeks an abortion, you will NEVER stop them.
Anything else - including legislation to prevent them - only feeds someone's ego and does nothing.
You want to end abortion, you have to end the need for them. And that is expensive, labor-intensive, intelligence-stifling, I-hate-these-idiots work. And more of it. Over generations, and longer.
And a lot of the time, you have to accept the fact that there just isn't enough to go around. And these "parents" are making the best decision they can, with what resources they have.
Abortions are cheaper than public education, socialized medicine and all that other jazz. And in a culture obsessed with the bottom line, that's what we have to work with.
Pro-life in deed, not merely in word, means we need a president who will do something about jobs, health insurance and support for mothers.
Yeah, I'm there.
