So, this is the thing: you're not talking to me. I am not some human interface to The Preborn Equality Collective Mind. I'm a person. Not a facet on a giant rock. Stop treating me like one of a thousand heads on a hydra.
I am not doing any of the things you're describing.
Stop it.
As
@iluvatar5150 mentioned, I was referring to the GOP/Pro-life movement as a whole, not "you" in particular.
However, with that said, some of the things you mentioned demonstrates that you share, as least in some ways, overlapping ideologies with the group I was referring to.
When I asked you for your roadmap for a workable public policy, you mentioned criminalization and public stigmatization, and mentioned absolutely nothing about providing policies and programs that may help young, single, and/or low income people take on the (expensive) task of raising a child. You do understand that most women don't skip gleefully into the clinic and say "shucks, that was fun" when it's over, then head out for a celebratory drink, right? It's an bad experience for all involved, in most cases, and a decision they wished they were never faced with in the first place.
That's why the solutions I presented are more in tune with the idea of society saying to these women "don't worry, you got this! We've got your back! If you need some financial help, you've got it"
But since many (red) states are trying to remove those things and almost make it a punitive thing against the women for their "sexual immorality", they're faced with a very difficult decision.
That's why so many folks have the perception that "conservatives care about children... right up until the time they're born"
I'll ask my original question to you in another way.
An inner city woman, who grew up in a state with a sexual education program that was lacking, gets pregnant due to incorrect usage of contraception from not having all the facts about the proper ways to use it. She makes minimum wage, same goes for her husband. They already have a child, they're barely scraping by in a small 2-bedroom apartment with a beat up old car, and next to nothing as far as savings or an emergency fund is considered.
(and no, this isn't some contrived "extreme" example to put you on the spot...I used this example based on the statistics about women who get abortions...
Demographics
Nearly 2/3 of women who have abortions already have children, half live below the federal poverty line, and 3/4 lived in poverty, themselves, as children)
She knows she can't possibly afford another child, as even with the current welfare benefits that are in place, it's not going to be enough money to cover all their bills and feed 2 mouths at home.
What is your plan to help her? You could encourage her to carry the child to term and give them up to put them in a foster home, but one would also have to acknowledge that only 13% of kids who end up in that system actually get adopted (8% if they're not white) and eventually get kicked out on their butts at age 18 without a penny to their name (thus creating more societal ills). Not a great thing for the child I'd think you'd agree...
To me, the solutions would be fairly simple...
Look at Switzerland...they have an abortion rate that's only about 1/3 of what ours is. What they also have, programs that include monthly allowances per child, and a tax program that heavily benefits households with children. However, in the US, systems like the ones they have in Switzerland are immediately stigmatized as "evil socialism" by one of our political parties who'd prefer to give the tax benefits to people who are already rich in the name of trickle-down economics.
