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Originally Posted by Locke9-05
What do you mean terrible consequences? You mean the "terrible consequences" resulting mostly from those individuals' choices to behave in ways that resulted in pregnancy? No sympathy here. If someone is going to do that and then go to that much trouble to try and kill a new life that they created when there are obviously so many better options and when it completely goes against the grain of nature to do it, the consequences become a result of their stupid choices and actions. I love it how people try to blame crime and the suffering that results from it on the law in all these issues... People who seek ways around the law are criminals, they break the law because they're selfish and don't care about the rest of society and they obviously don't care about what's right. Their actions show that perfectly. There were plenty of women during the time when abortion was illegal who didn't kill the human lives they created and chose to go through with the natural process of birthing and adoption--which showed integrity in that they were at least opposed to killing off their "mistakes," which happened to be human lives as well...
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I would like your definition of 'sexual irresponsibility.' Would that be sex outside marriage? Thing is, in the current society many people don't get married until they are well into their twenties. Do you expect them to remain a virgin until they are 25? If you are, then I'd say you are expecting to much from people.
You realize that for many people throughout history prostitution was the only job that many single woman could get? That the slums of London in the 1800s for example, where it was estimated that 1 out of every 12 woman was a prostitute. Having all of your children is not economically viable, and you exist in a society that is wanting for morals.
FYI- the law isn't perfect. While laws do help define society, not all lawbreakers are anarchists. If you want to take abortion as being supremely selfish, I'll take it the other way and say that the forced labor under Stalin was a good thing because it made the USSR into a massive industrial power.