Markle wrote:Please show me where I made that statement or even hinted at such a solution.
You didn't have to, Markle. Because the logical upshot of what you're suggesting -- to cut off public funding for what remains of PP abortions and force PP to somehow find private funding for separate facilities (HIGHLY unlikely in today's environment), almost certainly means the end of the PP abortion option. Add to that the closures to date of the majority of other abortion clinics remaining in the U.S., due either to untenable new laws or (too often) violence or threats of same, and what choices will women -- especially those of limited means -- have remaining but to seek the back alleys and coat hangers of the darker days in our society?
Yes, yes, the right-to-lifers will say this is just great, because the women do have another choice -- the only acceptable one, in their eyes -- and that's to carry the baby to term and give birth, and either put the child up for adoption or keep it. But do they really think that a greater percentage of women will make that choice than they did in the past, because of the heavy-handed closure of safe medical facilities for abortion? Is that the way to convince them of the error of their ways?
Maybe so; I don't know; I'm not a sociologist. Somehow I doubt it. But one big question haunts me: If more and more unwanted babies are born, many being raised in far less than optimal environments, and often ending up at the mercy of public assistance and welfare along with the mothers, won't the religious right scream about that, too?
In other words, isn't this perhaps a case of, "We cherish all life including in the womb and insist each fetus be carried to term," followed by "But don't come crying to us for financial aid to raise your friggin' baby!! Figure it out for yourself!" -- ?????
Some will then likely want to remind me that the tenets of "personal responsibility" dictate that the woman (NEVER the man, of course, OH no), should've prevented the pregnancy in the first place or had a plan to properly raise the resultant child in a loving, economically secure home. Right. Saying that over and over will surely solve everything, and change the world.
NOT.