Question for Pro-Lifers

[Corona]

I understand for the most part, the position maintained by many/most pro-lifers, many of you believe life becomes at conception and that this life should be protected.  Life is precious, especially innocent life should be defended, and to a certain extent I agree.

Like many of you, I find those who treat abortion as contraception to be abhorrent. 

That being said,

if your position is to protect/defend innocent life, infant/baby life, shouldn't the government also afford pregnant women free medical care, access to pre-natal medicines at an affordable price? 


some of the most "pro life/anti-abortion" states such as Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana have some of the highest infant mortality rates. 

What are these pro life states doing wrong? or could do better? 

[chuck_curtis]

I think people that aren't ready for pregnancy can't afford to gamble.   That's just common sense.  This stuff isn't rocket science.  And pregnancy isn't a disease automatically requiring medical treatment.  It's been going on for thousands of years.

[wvit1001]

and for most all of those thousands of years women have been having abortions


The first recorded evidence of induced abortion is from the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus in 1550 BCE. Many of the methods employed in early cultures were non-surgical. Physical activities such as strenuous labor, climbing, paddling, weightlifting, or diving were a common technique.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_abortion#cite_note-potts-6

[D2D]

Free medical care is stagnant medical care!

Experience teaches us that nationalized healthcare kills medical advancement!

If you want to end advancement in maternity care make it free!

If you cannot afford prenatal care, don't get pregnant!

There are plenty of people willing to adopt so abortion isn't necessary!

CCPWvit, for all of history people have been murdering each other, does that make murder OK?

[chuck_curtis]

The goal is not to promote irresponsibility.  The goal is to promote good, stable families while protecting life.  It's not easy to have and properly raise kids.  It never has been.

[wvit1001]

so forcing a woman to have a pregnancy she doesn't want is your idea of how to create a stable family chuck?

[D2D]

So how am I forcing women to have sex?

CCPWvit, please explain!

[chuck_curtis]

So vit, do you have better principles to live by, or are you just reacting irrationally to mine?

[D2D]

Looks like CCPWvit fled the thread!

[Dan]

shouldn't the government also afford pregnant women free medical care

No.  People are responsible for their own medical care, pregnant or not.

[wvit1001]

The reality of life has always been that young people have lots of sex, married or not.   And that some of those women get pregnant when they weren't planning on getting pregnant and don't want to follow through with the pregnancy.

Pregnancy shouldn't be looked at as a punishment for having sex. 

[chuck_curtis]

The reality of life is people are free to make choices, and they are responsible and accountable to those choices.