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Originally Posted by robayon
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This slippery argument can also be applied to a pro-choice position [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
You really think putting teenage girls behind bars is gonna make birth rates fall? You really think America needs more people incarcerated? Because that's what your party intends to do, regardless of what anyone tells themselves. It's where this is headed.
I don't like the idea of abortion because it definitely kills a potential person, but so much of our other shit kills potential people all the time and we don't even talk about it. Just look at the pushback I get from reactionaries like Ooloo. Like a flamingo jamming its head in the sand
Yeah, resources are infinite! The mass of the Earth is infinity! |
It’s tough, and harkens back to the lost “war on drugs”. While making drugs more difficult to get and use through policing does not stop, or even significantly slow, hard illegal drug use (though this could be a method of policing issue), throwing proverbial hands in the air and completely giving up on making it more difficult to use certainly DOES cause an increase in total use
So, like the war on drugs, having a rule of “don’t do this thing or you’ll go to jail” might only prevent like 5-10% of that thing. So yea, it might not be the best approach
I’m still personally advocating the contraceptive-pushing, and encouraging traditional values (wait for the right partner and time kinda thing) route. Another possible inadvertent method of lowering contraception rates is to keep getting more and more teens depressed, then pushing pharmacological solutions to their depression on them. SSRI’s are notorious for having a side effect of lowering sex drive, but nothing kills it like screwing with hormone medication tho