Also, is it true that while abortions are now illegal, nobody signed on to protect and aide these people when they do have these kids? So they're willing to say, you can't get an abortion, but we won't help you when they're born either? Is that true? I've only been quasi following the abortion news.
That's always been the case. They fight tooth and nail when the kid is in the womb, but once it's out it's of no concern to them.
With sincere respect, this is a misrepresentation of the quote-unquote conservative positions on both abortion as well as charity.
Aside, this is in my opinion a result of the sound-bite driven 24/7 "news" complex, which condenses usually honestly adopted and/or well thought out positions on the behalf of "both sides" down to mere caricatures at best.
I'm what you would call "radically pro-life". I believe for reasons which I have considered very thoughtfully and thoroughly that a human life is created at the point of conception. I believe that the female of the human species is remarkably endowed by God or Nature (however you might view it) with the awe inspiring ability to gestate and nurture incipient human life from
nearly nothing through self-sufficiency in a way that even our most close biological relatives do not. I consider that a miraculous gift - again from God or Nature - to not just the parents of that human being, but to the endurance of the human species itself.
These are the reasons why I believe that "abortion" is wrong, and should be held as an unacceptable practice by human society. Yet I do respect and understand the concerns that females have with regard to the establishment of laws which prohibit abortion. I cannot imagine yet understand the fear of facing a coercive entity seeking to impose a nameless, faceless will upon my body without knowledge of my circumstances - in fact, regardless of its knowledge, I insist on and fully understand the concept of self-ownership. I can understand the fear of such an entity seeking more and more control over me - indeed my entire political philosophy centers around the fact that human beings own their lives.
The unfortunate but indisputable burden that females bear is that they gestate human life within their bodies; this creates a remarkably unique question to self-ownership - that one human being is borne by another within her own body which is the essence of self-ownership.
I don't think most people who oppose abortion want to "force" women to do anything at all. I certainly do not. I have the utmost respect for the role women play in the sustenance of our species. I think most people who oppose abortion do so out of a reverence of human life, and they do so - rightly, in my view - from the point of conception because it is at that point which we can clearly and objectively determine that a genetically distinct individual human being EXISTS - not a "clump of cells", but a
genetically distinct individual human being at a particular point in its development between life and death.
It also happens that many of those who take the above view on the question of "abortion" also oppose "compulsory charity"; it does not follow that those who oppose social programs do not believe in caring for the unfortunate... in my experience moving from radically leftist to full-on anarchist, I've encountered many viewpoints and discussed this topic from many perspectives (and I currently live amongst some of the most politically and religiously conservative people I've ever known)... I've not met anyone who suddenly stops caring about the human life once it comes out of the womb. In fact, among the political/religious conservative people I move around now, I encounter an outsized number who are not only eager and willing but actually do foster and adopt, and engage in very, very robust private charities both here and abroad. For the record again, I do not align myself with conservatives or liberals; I hold things in common with and in opposition to both "sides".
