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Originally Posted by LordChocolate
I am politically on the RIGHT. I did not come on this thread to fight. However, I do have one question, how is it possible for a Christian to support a candidate that is pro abortion?
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Great question bro, can you find a "Pro-Abortion" candidate?
There is a difference between Pro-Choice and Pro-Abortion. One can believe abortion is absolutely wrong, a terrible moral evil, but not believe that it’s the role of Government to address it. For example, let’s say we ban abortion today. If a woman procures an abortion tomorrow what will be the penalty? If we classify it as murder we must try her and any assisting medical professional with murder. Sentence them to execution or life in prison. But that will not fly. So we suggest taking the license of a doctor (most abortionists aren’t licensed) and fine a woman. Great, life is reduced to the value of a parking ticket or moving violation. Anything short of trying her and the medical professional with first degree murder is an injustice. Or…we can look at the situation as the SCOTUS has. It’s primarily an issue the government isn’t tasked to address. It’s a grave social evil but there isn’t a political answer.
Find me a politician that believes women who procure abortion should be tried for murder and I’ll consider it. Until then, it’s an issue that doesn’t have a political answer.
Another way to look at it is to compare it to the rest of the world. Belgium is a very pro-choice liberal nation but has had one of the lowest (if not the lowest) abortion rate in the world. Chile serves as a good example of a nation that had some very strict abortion law. Their abortion rate was one of the highest in the world.
Those were just examples. There are many more. Why is it that so many liberal pro-choice nations have lower abortion rates than nearly every deeply conservative pro-life nation?
Well think about this…in Belgium child care is subsidized, national health insurance, struggling single mothers can receive assistance with paying rent and utilities. Women know they can raise a child well. In America a young woman has a crisis pregnancy or an unexpected pregnancy doesn’t know where help will come from. And frankly, there isn’t much help out there. How will she get health insurance for her and her child? Afford child care? Keep her job? It’s all very terrifying for those women in those circumstances. So they give in to fear and choose to abort. The CDC reported that 2 out of every 3 abortions in the US were procured by women living under poverty level who stated economic hardship was the primary reason for seeking abortion. Frankly, Satan convinced them to abort because there isn’t a family friendly social infrastructure in the US like there is in Belgium. That’s why our abortion rate is nearly triple that found in Belgium. Progressives often see the issue of abortion as the byproduct of non-progressive social policy. They intend to reduce abortion by addressing the needs and issues that women face (health care, child care, education, living wage, and job security).
Besides, most Republican politicians don’t care a bit about abortion. They want to keep the issue alive to manipulate our religious values to corner us into voting for them. Frankly, like good capitalists…they’re capitalizing on the issue of abortion and playing lip service to the Pro-Life position.
It’s an issue that isn’t going away. Address the issues women face and do more than moralize. That will reduce the rate of abortion and save lives. That's the progressive approach. It's working in other countries...it can work here too. We just have to have the will to do it. Or we can argue over it for another thirty years while abortion rates stay where they are or go higher.
Lastly, they'll never tell you this...but the Democrats submitted a plan aimed at reducing the abortion rate in the United States by 95% in 10% known as the 95-10 Initiative. The Republican congress locked arms with leftwing Pro-Choice Democrats and sidelined it.