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Harping on Abortions
The persons who do the most harping on abortions do the least about it. They focus on government and laws (the promoters of small government) instead of moral teaching in religion and assistance to the victims in acquiring the ability to make less intimidated decisions.
The women who have abortions are usually given no choice by the persons around them. Often, they regret the deed afterwards. Often they wonder why the moralists were not available when they were making the decisions.
A few moralists try to reach the victims with critical information and assistance, and it does a lot of good. But most of the abortion harpers are only concerned with the politics of the subject. They use the abortion issue to sanctify themselves while dumping garbage on political opponents. They often go so far as requiring one issue voting, as if there were no other corruptions in society.
The persons who used to be called liberals (the label is still not politically acceptable) have no choice but to justify a governmental right to abortion, because the laws evolved in that direction, and protecting the democratic process is what politicians are supposed to be doing. Democratic government is more important than any one issue.
In terms of government, it would not be constructive to revert back to making abortions illegal, because too many persons will not accept that standard. Forcing morality onto persons who do not accept it is not constructive. It does not make anyone more moral. It shifts the responsibilities onto the persons who are applying the force, who buy the sins of the original perpetrators. In other words, the perpetrators can say they aren't allowed to run their own lives, so all of the subsequent corruptions are someone else's fault.
If morality cannot be produced through rationality, it doesn't get produced. Government cannot change that fact by legislating morality. The prohibition of alcohol demonstrated that fact.
So the opponents of abortion need to be taking up their concerns in the churches instead of in politics. If they can't create moral standards through religion, the government can't solve the problems through force. Shifting the problem to government is nothing but a political exploitation of the issue rather than a real solution.
An analogy would be to try to require robbers to use water pistols instead of real guns. Do you think someone doing a robbery is going to care what someone else thinks about using a gun?
Trying to solve the abortion problem without solving all of the related problems is a guaranteed failure. To isolate abortions from all other moral issues is more of an attempt to bury the rest of morality than an attempt to end abortions.
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