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Can Harris pitch unrestricted abortion as 'debt reduction?'

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Jesus asked, “what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? What will a man (or woman) give in exchange for their soul?” (Mark 8:37) Put another way, What’s the going price for a human life? Kamala Harris has an answer — about $600.

US News reported that raising a child to adulthood now costs $312,202. By comparison, exterminating a life via DIY abortion pills (the most common method) costs $600. A mobile abortion clinic parked at the DNC convention offered abortions for free. Does that make human life worthless in Kamala’s America?

We’ve had 63 million abortions since 1973; multiplied times $312,000, those sacrificed human lives “saved” American women $19.6 trillion. Can Harris pitch unrestricted abortion as “debt reduction?” I’m only half joking, but I fear the joke is on us.

The goal of this group seems to be killing as many babies as possible. What if their philosophy were applied to other areas where things I don’t want to deal with are realities? Can we just kill our way out of inconvenience, stress, or expense? If it applies to the pre-born, why not everyone?

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Yuck.

She will have to answer to God on judgment day.

I hope she's proud of herself.
 
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Jesus asked, “what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? What will a man (or woman) give in exchange for their soul?” (Mark 8:37) Put another way, What’s the going price for a human life? Kamala Harris has an answer — about $600.

US News reported that raising a child to adulthood now costs $312,202. By comparison, exterminating a life via DIY abortion pills (the most common method) costs $600. A mobile abortion clinic parked at the DNC convention offered abortions for free. Does that make human life worthless in Kamala’s America?

We’ve had 63 million abortions since 1973; multiplied times $312,000, those sacrificed human lives “saved” American women $19.6 trillion. Can Harris pitch unrestricted abortion as “debt reduction?” I’m only half joking, but I fear the joke is on us.

The goal of this group seems to be killing as many babies as possible. What if their philosophy were applied to other areas where things I don’t want to deal with are realities? Can we just kill our way out of inconvenience, stress, or expense? If it applies to the pre-born, why not everyone?

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We could save so much money by diverting most emergency room traffic to the euthanasia floor. And chemotherapy to combat cancer could become chemotherapy for euthanasia (actually not that far apart). And all manner of prescriptions could be replaced with cheap and effective pentobarbitol. We could quickly save $100,000,000,000,000.

Lest anyone think I am actually serious, I'm NOT advocating any of it.

Train your children well, lest they start looking at bringing you to the euthanasia center.
 
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Smaller families happen worldwide when countries transition from agriculture to manufacturing/technology. Children become an expense instead of an extra set of hands. That doesn't mean children are not desired and loved--but large families are unmanageable.

But that doesn't mean abortion is necessary. Through education, affordable birth control, and an emphasis on fostering healthy families, abortion would be very rare. And that's what liberals think.
 
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Smaller families happen worldwide when countries transition from agriculture to manufacturing/technology. Children become an expense instead of an extra set of hands. That doesn't mean children are not desired and loved--but large families are unmanageable.

But that doesn't mean abortion is necessary. Through education, affordable birth control, and an emphasis on fostering healthy families, abortion would be very rare. And that's what liberals think.
In my opinion, there are billions of people around the world who think that abortion is just another method of birth control.
 
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Smaller families happen worldwide when countries transition from agriculture to manufacturing/technology. Children become an expense instead of an extra set of hands. That doesn't mean children are not desired and loved--but large families are unmanageable.

But that doesn't mean abortion is necessary. Through education, affordable birth control, and an emphasis on fostering healthy families, abortion would be very rare. And that's what liberals think.
You could also just ban abortion and force people to adapt to the consequences of their actions. But leftists don't like that.
 
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Jesus asked, “what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? What will a man (or woman) give in exchange for their soul?” (Mark 8:37) Put another way, What’s the going price for a human life? Kamala Harris has an answer — about $600.

US News reported that raising a child to adulthood now costs $312,202. By comparison, exterminating a life via DIY abortion pills (the most common method) costs $600. A mobile abortion clinic parked at the DNC convention offered abortions for free. Does that make human life worthless in Kamala’s America?

We’ve had 63 million abortions since 1973; multiplied times $312,000, those sacrificed human lives “saved” American women $19.6 trillion. Can Harris pitch unrestricted abortion as “debt reduction?” I’m only half joking, but I fear the joke is on us.

The goal of this group seems to be killing as many babies as possible. What if their philosophy were applied to other areas where things I don’t want to deal with are realities? Can we just kill our way out of inconvenience, stress, or expense? If it applies to the pre-born, why not everyone?

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Solution: Have the US government subsidize adoption (and a catchy slogan "Adoption is always an option"), and spend just a few billion dollars less on the military. Ban all abortions (except those that protect the life of a mother who is at risk of dying), as well as banning death penalty and banning euthanasia. Vote for American Solidarity Party.
 
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Solution: Have the US government subsidize adoption (and a catchy slogan "Adoption is always an option"), and spend just a few billion dollars less on the military. Ban all abortions (except those that protect the life of a mother who is at risk of dying), as well as banning death penalty and banning euthanasia. Vote for American Solidarity Party.

I would prefer it if we banned abortion and euthanasia without destroying valuable military capabilities.

The death penalty, furthermore, is a necessary deterrent against mass murder, although I do favor limiting its application to murderers whose guilt is not disputed, including all prior murder convicts (we owe it to the inmates in the prison to reduce the risk of being maimed or murdered by another inmate, and as I see it the best way to do this is to reimagine life imprisonment as what one might call “vital probation”, with prisoners sentenced thus subject to termination if they were to kill another prisoner or attack another prisoner with homicidal intent using a bladed weapon.

What Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery said regarding the Nuremberg trials is equally applicable to American justice with regards to that most frightening category of criminals, that of the murderers, killers, cutthroats and thugs, bloodthirsty and psychopathic, and that is, that even for such monsters, we must present justice that is firm but fair. Firm in that those who can be proven to carry guilt should be swiftly cut down by the sword of Justice, fair in that those where even some doubts exist, less than reasonable doubt, but the unlikeliest possibility of innocence, should be spared, but put on notice that should they harm a fellow prisoner, their probationary existence shall be brought to a swift and unsympathetic close.

I should also note in closing that there appears to exist in Scripture a positive commandment to execute murderers, and that such executions were viewed favorably by both Patristic authorities of the common Catholic and Orthodox heritage, as well as the Scholastic theologians unique to Roman Catholicism.
 
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The death penalty, furthermore, is a necessary deterrent against mass murder, although I do favor limiting its application to murderers whose guilt is not disputed, including all prior murder convicts (we owe it to the inmates in the prison to reduce the risk of being maimed or murdered by another inmate, and as I see it the best way to do this is to reimagine life imprisonment as what one might call “vital probation”, with prisoners sentenced thus subject to termination if they were to kill another prisoner or attack another prisoner with homicidal intent using a bladed weapon.

What evidence is there that the death penalty is in any way a deterrent to mass murder? Simple common sense seems to go strongly against it: It would only be a deterrent if there is someone out there that would commit mass murder if the worst they'd get for it is life imprisonment, but wouldn't do it if the death penalty is possible. I highly doubt any such person has ever existed.
 
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You could also just ban abortion and force people to adapt to the consequences of their actions. But leftists don't like that.
If someone got pregnant from unprotected sex, that's a risk they chose. They aren't victims, here.

Not ready to be a parent? Don't have sex.

Period.
 
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I would prefer it if we banned abortion and euthanasia without destroying valuable military capabilities.

The death penalty, furthermore, is a necessary deterrent against mass murder, although I do favor limiting its application to murderers whose guilt is not disputed, including all prior murder convicts (we owe it to the inmates in the prison to reduce the risk of being maimed or murdered by another inmate, and as I see it the best way to do this is to reimagine life imprisonment as what one might call “vital probation”, with prisoners sentenced thus subject to termination if they were to kill another prisoner or attack another prisoner with homicidal intent using a bladed weapon.

What Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery said regarding the Nuremberg trials is equally applicable to American justice with regards to that most frightening category of criminals, that of the murderers, killers, cutthroats and thugs, bloodthirsty and psychopathic, and that is, that even for such monsters, we must present justice that is firm but fair. Firm in that those who can be proven to carry guilt should be swiftly cut down by the sword of Justice, fair in that those where even some doubts exist, less than reasonable doubt, but the unlikeliest possibility of innocence, should be spared, but put on notice that should they harm a fellow prisoner, their probationary existence shall be brought to a swift and unsympathetic close.

I should also note in closing that there appears to exist in Scripture a positive commandment to execute murderers, and that such executions were viewed favorably by both Patristic authorities of the common Catholic and Orthodox heritage, as well as the Scholastic theologians unique to Roman Catholicism.
I agree abortion and euthanasia should be 100% banned.

I think the death penalty should be incredibly rare.

My opinion only

Blessings
 
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