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I'm for keeping abortion legal.
What's interesting about abortion to me, is the way it's marketed. Very few issues are in constant debate as guns and abortions. Each are really a more symbolic fight than a real fight-how many people lobbying for the rights of women to have an abortion will have one themselves? It's not going to be, contrary to the image, the clean cut business woman who terminates the pregnancy because she wants a career. It's going to be the bum who smokes crack and doesn't want to get sober, so she terminates it.
So, who's pushing it? Religion. Religion has found something very marketable in abortion. The same way the gun issue takes hold in the south, religion has got abortion. Religion simplifies abortion-God knows the future of the baby, and by killing it, you interefere with his plan. Of course, this assumes that God has a plan that humans can mess up.
But I digress...so they claim it's murder. But it's really on the fence. I believe both sides genuinely believe what they are saying. I believe that the people picketting outside abortion clinics honestly believe it's murder. And I believe the people who fight just as hard to keep those rights feel that it's a right women deserve. I believe the people that maybe a little shady are preachers who use it as a way of getting money.
My ultimate point is that these symbolic fights are often waged to the detriment of the bigger picture. The bigger picture, in both the gun and abortion fights, is for the goverment to give people as many freedoms as possible. I hope people remember that.
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