Actually, I fully support Family Planning Policies like the one China enforces. If China hadn't created the policy, everyone would be starving over there just like in India.

Of course, I don't support a One Child Policy, but neither does China. ;-) That's just a rumor over here in the west. A One Child Policy, I feel, doesn't quite account for the complexity of the situation...

Oh, did you think I got someone pregnant? No, not yet anyways... And hopefully not for a while!



lmao...good for me it doesn't work like that else I would've been aborted at 13!

Who does? For one thing, an abortion is expensive and not all insurance carriers will cover it. Some will but only partially. In what circumstance is an abortion less expensive and a more practical form of birth control than say, buying a box of condoms from the local drug store? Thats a ridiculous argument used by conservative, right wingers.

Ah, point taken...and it was a stupid thing for me to say. I should have stuck a "maybe" or "perhaps" somewhere in there because I really didn't know if anyone does that. Either way, that doesn't change my point (which is the same as yours, btw): Abortion is not a practical form of birth control.

Statistically it would be impossible to prove therefore it is an unacceptable argument.

Yes, you're right. It's good we're talking about this because it allows me to belabor the other point on which we agree:


FOLKS, >> No one uses abortion as a planned method of contraception, so NO, girls won't run around like crazy getting pregnant and aborting if we accept Pro-Choice as law.

Well said, and an excellent way to come to the logical conclusion. By taking it as true then seeing the processes through to its absurd conclusion, then rejecting the absurd.

A middle ground might be before the neocortex involved in iconically human tasks develops in a fetus.



nq00- "I know this might be a strange standpoint, but if my mother had aborted me, she might have had another child at a less stressful time. That child might have been able to spend more time with her parents, might have been taught more things by her father, what have you. In short, perhaps it would have been better if my mother had aborted. Am I crazy to admit that? No, nor do I see that as a self-hating statement. I'm a realist and I try to do the best with what I've got. ;-) And I don't have such a big pride to admit that someone else might have had a better life than me had they been born in my place, but 4 years later."

I see this as a very well thought out response. I feel the same, but my parents were old enough, I think in their young thirties. Only I was one of four, and often feel as you do, without the four years later part. I doubt my views will change much later on.

Population crisis is one topic that about half the world, even semi-well off young people in the U.S. seem ignorant of. I think that if you as a young man hold such reasonable views, it will benefit the whole someday, in however a small or large way. I for myself have decided to try and limit reproduction to one, but really I lean towards no kids.