Want to reduce abortions? Stop electing Republicans
We all make a choice at the ballot

Unless you’re going to lock pregnant women up like a calf doomed-to-become-veal and investigate every miscarriage as a murder, abortions will always happen — and probably even then.

The fact is: even making abortion illegal won’t make it go away. At least one study has shown abortion rates are higher in countries where the procedure is banned. They’re also more cruel and dangerous.

The GOP’s fondness for birth and indifference to actual children is so transparent and callous that it has become a cliche. Rick Perry and the Texas GOP are getting a lot of attention for their recent forays into limiting women’s choices but their effort to maim the bare infrastructure that offers poor women health care has been going on for years.

Some posit that there are financial motives — like profiting off the adoption industry — to the anti-choice movement that make what they’re doing more invidious. But I do believe there are a small group of Americans who generally believe in the sanctity of every life and for whatever psychological reason they’re able to separate that life from the women who sustains it. These true “pro-lifers” often adopt and foster multiple children, even though they often — for religious reasons — can’t or won’t take the steps to prevent unintended pregnancies. They are only aligned with the men who want to punish women for having sex out of necessity, I hope.

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Full article here: http://www.eclectablog.com/2013/07/want-reduce-abortions-stop-electing-republicans.html