I appreciate where you are coming from, but I think it is far more significant than the woman suffering the consequences of her actions. I believe that abortion is a symptom of an erosion of our humanity and that erosion can explain why we treat each other the way we do…. Why murder and violent crime are on the rise. I did not advocate the Federal Government should outlaw abortion. What I do advocate for is that government does not encourage or pay for abortion. That we as a society acknowledge the wrong of it and we do everything in our power to help young women make a different decision and that the fathers be responsible for the children they father. I don’t claim to have all the answers, but I do know that abortion is wrong and from there I can do what is in my power to do.
I can respect and empathize with what your saying but working in mental health and living with mental issues myself I feel that you may from my experience have the lens turned backwards on things that are wrong in the world and individuals and what needs to be done to create change
Your maintaining part of that change needs to come from the government, outside institutions, with the approach of primarily enforcement. If we as a society impose rules that we think address a person's moral or mental or behavioral issues then they can change
What I've experienced over the years is the opposite. The more outside institutions try enforcement of any shape or form it actually leads to individual stagnation physically emotionally mentally and spiritually. Change needs to start from within not from without.
The more any side imposes limits it robs a person from making that internal decision and journey to change. People have to change one person at a time and the change comes from them it comes from within and it can never be induced by external factors.
Society has always been brutal and ugly as a whole throughout history because that is the nature of humanity. But an equal part of human nature is great beauty and the capacity to change. But it's always been messy and a back and forth journey.
You maintain society is eroding I maintain we have always been this way. Technology and the comforts we have here in the West can cover it up but underneath the veneer of civilization our true nature both the beautiful and ugly have always been right there.
I feel humans ability to change and the darkness humanity overcomes is not going to be influenced one way or the other by what a woman decides to do with the life inside of her. Ij fact imposing limits on they're individual choices may keep them from evolving and contribute to the ailments of society that your concerned about
I'm not saying we shouldn't have limits and laws in fact they are critical. Those limits are what sometimes leads someone to the internal pressure to change. My own experience testifies to that. And I'm not saying we as society shouldn't help. I was very grateful for a hand up but never a hand out so to speak
But there has to be a balance. If the individual only affects themselves and no one else even if they carry life within them they MUST in my opinion be given the freedom to choose. Or they can't evolve. If there behavior impacts others safety or liberties then enforcement and consequences MUST be strong and those consequences MUST be followed up by intensive treatment.
That's what I feel is wrong with the conservative perspective on issues like abortion. They believe imposing limits based on THEYRE personal belief system will create change. I find it has the opposite effect. It leads to stagnation.
Ironically my incarceration in institutions and treatment centers and my journey to redemption from bipolar disorder is what gave birth to my conservative values. To me self accountability and the freedom to make choices and grow from them good or bad is sacred above all.
My time in the system and institutions is what created my fierce belief that institutions and big gov is the worst thing to rely upon for change. Only within myself and my community can that change be created. Big gov must be kept out of this as much as realistically possible.
I think Roe vs Wade gave women the freedom to do this on the issue of abortion. I don't feel it should be overturned
