Emotional Issues - Abortion
I'm very much in favour of a woman's right to choose, and I don't have an issue with late-term abortions if the mother's health/well being is at risk. I do, however, have a problem with abortion as a form of birth control.
That having been said, this is where it gets prickly on the health care debate.
Under univeresal health care - financed by everyone, might I add - the use of abortion as birth control can upset even pro-choicers. It's one thing to terminate a pregnancy brought on by rape or incest and it's another thing to have an abortion because either party was too damned lazy/stupid/uncaring enough to use birth control - especially with the slew of STDs out there. Why not add paying for treating someone who was too lazy/stupid/uncaring to not contract an STD in the first place?
Should the Government be financing birth control through its health care program? Throw in the religious angle of the prohibition of artificial birth control and you'll get all the Roman Catholics pissed off at you because now *they're* helping to fund something that violates one of their hierarchy's tenets.
This is all further to my earlier post about splitting the base down the middle. Just because you happen to be on one side of the issue or the other, it doesn't mean you have to walk lock-step with everyone else on your particular "wing". Throw in enough emotional issues and people will prioriotize what's really important to them and end up voting (nose plugged with fingers) for the other guy.
That's not how you get elected.
More about health care later.
That having been said, this is where it gets prickly on the health care debate.
Under univeresal health care - financed by everyone, might I add - the use of abortion as birth control can upset even pro-choicers. It's one thing to terminate a pregnancy brought on by rape or incest and it's another thing to have an abortion because either party was too damned lazy/stupid/uncaring enough to use birth control - especially with the slew of STDs out there. Why not add paying for treating someone who was too lazy/stupid/uncaring to not contract an STD in the first place?
Should the Government be financing birth control through its health care program? Throw in the religious angle of the prohibition of artificial birth control and you'll get all the Roman Catholics pissed off at you because now *they're* helping to fund something that violates one of their hierarchy's tenets.
This is all further to my earlier post about splitting the base down the middle. Just because you happen to be on one side of the issue or the other, it doesn't mean you have to walk lock-step with everyone else on your particular "wing". Throw in enough emotional issues and people will prioriotize what's really important to them and end up voting (nose plugged with fingers) for the other guy.
That's not how you get elected.
More about health care later.
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