Contraception is important. It not only helps to prevent unwanted pregnancy, but curbs the impact of STD's, including AIDS. Some radicalized Christian movements abhor the supply and dissemination of sexual information, and contraception to our youth, but if it stops, or even greatly reduces abortion, isn't it worth it. And if the answer is no, then they are not serious about preventing abortion.
Putting pay to poverty is a big issue, to which there is no simple solution. The fact is that many policies would need to be formulated in many areas, for the scourge of poverty to be laid waste. As poverty is a major factor in abortion, its prevalence dictates that abortion will continue. It is curious to me that the churches stated opposition to abortion, gets so much air time, and yet you rarely see the Church's great leap forward to end the curse of being poor. I suppose the church would say they are battling to save innocent lives, from the butcher, abortion. How many innocents I wonder are cut down by the oppression of deprivation. Methinks they are one and the same.
There are solutions, but without consensus, they are nothing.
Those who seek to render a solution by oppression, should maybe think about how unholy it is to oppress, the already oppressed.
I seem to remember some guy, a couple of thousand years ago, saying something about let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Or something like that. I guess sentiments akin to that are out of place in our modern, ideologically hedonist society.
Well, are they?
