Posted on 01/25/2005 8:44:17 AM PST by qam1
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Most of whom would have voted for Gore or Kerry....
BTTT - to read later.
Wow - it's a good thing we dodged that bullet. Let's kill 40 million more.
Not necessarily. My mom is a Democrat, and I turned out okay. :) LOL
I think the person who was ordained to cure some of our illnesses of today, cancer, diabetes, etc... may have been aborted and therefore, it is possible no cure will be found.
Hey, I actually voted for McGovern on my 1st trip to the polls.
My kids today would not even consider a vote for Gore or Kerry. I think that the younger generation is a lot wiser than we were/I was.
Indeed! This calls out for reductio ad absurdum. If we aborted 100% of all preganancies, our costs would drop dramatically and we'd all be much better off!
Strictly speaking, I don't think we can look at the total number of children lost as a total change to the American population, because many women who had abortions when they were young went on to have children later in life that they might not have had (using the pill) if they'd started a family sooner.
Might have been another Einstein in there...or someone that would have found the cure for cancer...or any number of things. But the numbers are elevated. Some of the women that aborted once have multiple abortions. If they had the first child, the probablility of getting pregnant again decline. You tend to get "more responsible" etc. My wife and I used to joke that our son was the best birth control in the world. Not only for ourselves, but for the neighbors in our apartment complex we used to live in. He would start crying (colic) at about 0200 when all the single folk were getting back from the bars or whatever.
Aw, now, you know that's not what I meant.... The point was, simply, that if the author is going to be predicting outcomes of unrealized lives, then we can't just focus on the good things they might have done. It's likely that, because of family background, more of them would have voted "D" than "R."
Just imagine if all the babies, throughout history that were aborted, had lived...or for that matter, all the people that died in any way other than from natural causes, or accidents??!!
We are thinking alike -- my three kids are Republicans and conservative but a lot of Dems chose the abortion route so the liberal group is going to get smaller and smaller thanks to themselves!
At a neighborhood party a couple of months ago, an elderly lib was lamenting about how she wasn't sure if she would be able to retire because social security was in such a financial mess. My response was that if bigger families were promoted, all the babies born would be able to support the System in 20 years. She said she hadn't thought of that. When I said I believe part of the social security mess is because of the prevalence of abortion as a form of birth control, she was so shocked she couldn't speak.
What really disgusts me is when people, especially "conservatives," lament abortion because "those babies could've paid for our social security".
What a truly sick attitude to take. We shouldn't oppose abortion for such socialist and selfish reasons. We should oppose abortion because it's wrong. Period.
I wonder what his "cost efficiency" calculations showed for the elderly.
I gotcha. The sad thing is you're right about who they'd vote for...
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