re: If Alabama was actually serious about lowering abortions

Do you understand basic human physiology and how humans reproduce?

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As someone else stated, your professionals aren't having abortions. It is the poors that will depend on welfare.

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Professionals generally take responsibility. The poors can get free condoms but refuse to use them.

You know how one solution to illegal immigration is to heavily punish employers of illegals so they are not motivated to hire them? Make sure that mothers face the responsibility of raising their offspring and aren’t given a free escape via abortion and they will be motivated to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

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Can’t beat a real argument so you make a straw man.

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"I agree, never in history have we been able to prevent people from having sex. Not with religion, government, or even violent brutality. However, admitting this would make me have to think beyond making simple judgment of people and possibly open my wallet."

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People act as though abstinence is impossible and that unwanted pregnancy is unavoidable.

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You

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As I said to another poster, show me one time in history when puritanical legislation prevented people from having sex.

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Is this the definition of cognozant dissonance?

What does puritanism have to do with scientific fact? I thought you loved science?

Or, you truly connect abstinence with purity...hmm. interdasting.

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As I said to another poster, show me one time in history when puritanical legislation prevented people from having sex.

Black people broke laws against interracial sex at the height of Jim Crow when 5,000 of them were being lynched.

Gay people broke laws against homosexual sex when they risked loaing their jobs, friends, family, and freedom by being outed, not to mention getting their heads bashed in by a misread signal to the wrong person.

Religious people get sat down and taught that premarital sex is a sin and they will burn in hell for eternity if they don't abstain and repent for the lust in their heart and still have sex.

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When you don’t punish something, you will get more of it. When you punish it, you will get less of it. That’s generally how it goes in life. It doesn’t mean you will get none of something by punishing it, but you will get less. Murder is illegal but it still happens. If you made willful homicide legal, you will get more of it.

Likewise, when you remove laws and stigmas around extramarital sex you will get more extramarital sex. It used to be that the stigma was so great around unwed pregnancy that people would get married to avoid it. That was better for children and for the parents in different ways. That rarely happens anymore and abortion has replaced marriage in those situations.

Sin is the problem and more sin is not the solution.

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-Pass mandatory paid maternity and paternity leave

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So arbitrarily raise costs and kill jobs for everyone. I'm sure that will help.

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Expand Medicaid so low income women feel confident in their ability to receive medical care

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Maybe you should look at the data on this.

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Teach comprehensive sex ed in middle school and high school, educate students about Plan B and the morning after pill

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Plan B and the morning after pill are the same thing as abortions. They prevent the fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus.

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Teach comprehensive sex ed in middle school and high school, educate students about Plan B and the morning after pill

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You and I both know the adoption process is not remotely in the minds of an expecting mother who seeks an abortion. "Oh I'd carry this baby for 9 months, and let it be adopted, but it will take to long. Guess I'll just kill it instead." Please.

Forcing them to take care of their children is a terrible idea. Stop illegals. Punish opioid users/dealers. Give people economic hope with jobs, etc. That will reduce abortions. Bills like this make all southern peoples look ignorant. It also further divides the Republican party. Your 1980 on crowd doesn't want religion in politics. They are pushing them blue.

You ever considered how you would look wearing mustard and ketchup.?

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This is fricking laughable.

War on Drugs.
Prohibition.

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Both of those things result(ed) in fewer people drinking and doing drugs. That’s the nature of the law. Some people don’t want to break the law and risk being arrested so they don’t do what the law prohibits. When you make drugs and alcohol legal, more people will be willing to do those things, which is my point.

Making a law will not prevent all people from doing what that law prohibits, but it will make people think twice about it.

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There’s no accidental pregnancies,

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This needs to be taught at a young age too. Would prevent a lot of older siblings bullying their younger siblings about being "an accident". Apparently, per a friend, that happens.