Word: unwantedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For example, would pro-lifers advocate treating abortion as premeditated, first-degree murder--even if there were a death penalty involved? Obviously, treating abortion as any sort of murder would implicate both-abortionists (as murderers) and pregnant women (as accomplices, at least). But would fathers be legally culpable as well...
There is also the question of a rape exception. Pro-lifers who oppose it must justify the use of victims' bodies as vessels which, as a result of a traumatizing, violent crime, produce unwanted offspring.
If the pro-lifers simply attempt to change societal attitudes toward abortion through persuasion, they will not only have more credibility, but they will have more success. After all, once the issue of choice is removed, no one really likes abortion: it is physically excruciating and humiliating, often leaving permanent...
The pro-lifers' first task, then, is to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. Complete mandatory programs of sex education and readily available birth control would go a long way toward achieving this end. Too many pregnancies result from sheer ignorance. If more teenagers were taught how to use contraceptives...
Of course, education alone won't prevent all unwanted pregnancies. Accordingly, another goal of the pro-life movement should be to make it easier for pregnant women to choose to bear their children.