Those are two separate issues. Some might say that poverty

Posted on: August 7, 2017 at 15:23:55 CT

causes crime... leaving aside the veracity of that assertion for the moment, do you think that until poverty is eliminated murder should be accepted, much less funded by the government?

Of course not. One problem does not excuse murder.

As to your other assertion that "the pill", "the morning after pill" and condoms would reduce the number of abortions indirectly by reducing the number of pregnancies, there are two huge problems with it.

1. Margaret Sanger proclaimed that legalizing contraception would eliminate unwanted pregnancies. She pleaded that if the nation followed her plan that "every child {would be} a wanted child". She got her wish with regards to the first part, but her predictions were the opposite of what actually happened. History actually proved Pope Paul VI correct in his predictions that it would degrade the respect for women by separating the inherent connection between the unitive and procreative aspects of "the marital act" and that it would result in much misery, especially for women and children due to adultery, divorce, the use of people as sexual objects for one's own pleasure, premarital sex and so on.

It turned out that women were indeed treated as sexual objects for the pleasure of men. Adultery and premarital sex became common and the number of divorces shot through the roof. Along with broken families there were many teen pregnancies and the STDs became rampant.

We ended up with far more "unwanted pregnancies" rather than fewer.

It was counter intuitive to many, just like the use of condoms in the battle against AIDS was in Africa. In the countries that promoted abstinence the AIDs epidemic dropped significantly. In the countries that promoted the use of condoms and "safe sex" the AIDS epidemic got worse.

2. Both the pill, but more especially "the morning after pill" often do not prevent pregnancy, but instead induce a very early abortion... the killing of an innocent human being. One might argue over percentages of actual "contraception" vs early abortion, but the fact of the matter is that one cannot promote things that cause abortions as a means to reduce abortions.