"The abortion rate is roughly equivalent to what it was in 1973, and many religious people have been duped into thinking that one party is in favor of abortion and the other is opposed to it."FALSE! According to the Guttmacher Institute (a pro-abortion entity) the abortion rate is NOT roughly equivalent to what it was in 1973. There were 16.3 abortions per 1000 women in the US in 1973. By 1981, that number had skyrocketed to 29.4 per 1000 (almost double). In 2005 the number was down to 19.4 per 1000. 19.4 is not roughly equivalent to 16.3, especially when counting human lives.
With regard to being "duped", one party IS in favor of abortion and the other IS opposed to it (with few individual exceptions).
"Pro-Choice" is not the appropriate term either, because "The Choice" will happen whether or not this "Choice" is legal."What kind of an argument is that? Are you trying to say that you can't legislate morality? OK. Agreed. Should we now abandon all forms of civil society and embrace anarchy because some people will still "choose" to do the wrong thing? Are laws pointless and futile in this regard? I think not. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." I'm inclined to believe that if unborn children had a voice in the matter they would feel the same way.
Notwithstanding any statistics or flawed philosophical views, abortion is the murder of an unborn child and that is simply and intolerably wrong! Why any self proclaimed Catholic would go to such great lengths to obfuscate an issue that is so clear and so important is beyond my comprehension. What is going on in that head of your's Mr. Roth?
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i guess since a serial killer is going to kill no matter what we should just go ahead and make it legal.
According to Mr. Roth it would seem so. You know, sometimes I read stuff like this and wonder how people buy into it. It seems so obviously false that there simply must be some degree of willful ignorance involved. I mean c'mon, I was able to punch huge holes in his argument after 15 minutes of research on the internet and I graduated from a public school in Louisiana! Just how weak does that make his argument?
the sad thing is that people will believe anything they read.
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