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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What if the situation does not concern a poor black waitress, but rather the supposedly typical DCUM poster -- 2 income family, HHI $300K, 2 kids in expensive private schools, expensive house, etc.  Woman has a birth control failure at 44, gets pregnant with a child that will have serious disabilities.  Yes, she could afford to take care of this child, but mentally, she can't.  Sympathetic to abortion?[/quote]

Yes, because in all honesty, that woman can also afford to go to Canada or Mexico or Europe to have an abortion and wouldn't be barred from having such a procedure done.  When you outlaw abortion here, what you are doing is essentially restricting abortion to those who have the means to go where elsewhere to have it done (where it is legal).  You are only barring those with insufficient means from having an abortion.  And those are the women who will have the hardest time supporting an extra mouth and finding a way to both work and raise a child on limited resources and most likely that both mother and child will suffer significantly due to circumstance.  In a perfect world, I would be extremely anti-abortion, but I know that our country is not perfect and that abortion laws only persecute the poor.  [b]Those who stand by their ethics are usually those who have wealth and who either cannot or will not think about the lower SE classes.[/b]  The current abortion debate is classic class warfare being pushed by the haves onto the have-nots.

Maybe we should have a progressive tax based on your annual income that goes into a fund to care for those babies that cannot be aborted but the mother's do not have the economic means to provide for the child.  If were such a fund that guaranteed those children would be cared for, I'd be back in your camp.  How much are you willing to put your money where your mouth is?[/quote]

Disagree.  I know so many truly wealthy people who do not practice what they preach that it is laughable.  They don't even know that they are hypocrites.

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