The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.
The Supreme Court has in place a legal structure which protects abortion rights in this country, and something has got to be done to change that before we can put in place truly meaningful protection for the unborn.
There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
I am open and will continue to be open to ways to limit abortion. What I am not open to is to removing the right.
In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.
The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.
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