Reducing Abortions

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  Posted By: starwatcher777 @ 02/10/2009 6:35:09 PM

  I wonder how many people out there are Pro-Life (About abortions) but are also for (Euthanasia) in cases of brain trauma of the neo cortex (Personality death,permanent coma)
  
  The two issues seem to be intertwined to me, if most Anti-Abortion people are pro-Euthanasia then both sides of the isle may one day be able to settle their differences.
  
  If however most Anti-Abortion people are against Euthanasia (On the grounds that the mind is not needed to make life sacred) I really do not see for the two sides will ever come to a compromise both are happy with.
  
  The Pro Abortion people will never want to give up their right to an abortion for a fetus they do not consider "alive", while the Pro Life people will always view (even early term abortions) as murder.

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  Posted By: glimps @ 09/19/2008 12:32:52 AM

  Willis makes some good points... However, this two sided issue is a pro-chioice situation bottom line.
  
  Birth-contol & sex education & ppl taking resonsibility is the big issue....

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  Posted By: BCSutton @ 08/06/2008 8:51:03 PM

  Jim Wallis makes some excellent points and has proposed a sane foundation for the beginning of a new cooperative effort in reducing abortions. He misses just one tiny detail - abortions are big business. Planned Parenthood posted in its 2007 fiscal year end report that it brought in more than $1 billion performing nearly 290,000 abortions.
  
  Since Planned Parenthood performs one-fourth of all abortions in the U.S., one could extrapolate that the entire abortion industry took in $4 billion in revenue last year. That doesn't count the tens of millions of dollars raised by pro-choice organizations to fund their efforts, their candidates and their lobbyists - dollars that are raised by continually raising the spector of women losing "control of their own bodies" and their "right to choose". If both sides came together to reduce the number of abortions, the pro-choice side would lose the element of life threatening urgency in their fundraising - and they would erode the more than $4 billion they make every year in their main line of business.
  
  Unless Mr. Wallis can figure out a way to replace $4 billion in annual revenue through adoption fees, I think he will be hard pressed to get much cooperation from the abortion industry and its many lobbying arms.