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God and Country by Dan Gilgoff

This Morning's White House Call on Abortion Reduction: After-Action Report

April 03, 2009 11:54 AM ET | Dan Gilgoff | Permanent Link | Print

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Reducing the NEED for Abortion -- Not Abortion Reduction

Women of color disproportionately have unintended pregnancies that may end in abortion because of poverty, health care disparities, religion, disabilities, age, geography and a host of other reasons. We are pleased that President Obama's Administration joins us in the call for reducing the need for abortion. This wording is very important because campaigns to reduce abortions without reducing the unintended pregnancies create bad consequences and fewer options for women. Many women make the decision whether to become a parent or not based on many factors such as lack of health care, education, affordable child care and housing, violence in their lives, family support, jobs, etc. These are Reproductive Justice issues that must be considered when discussing strategies for reducing the need for abortion. I represent the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, a coalition of 80+ women of color and allied organizations working for reproductive justice for women of color, poor women, incarcerated women, and all who experience human rights violations that complicate decisions about if and when to parent. Speaking personally, I also was a teen parent -- through incest -- who decided to keep and raise my child, but did not want to give my child up for adoption. Those who blithely assume adoption is an option may not be sensitive to the complicated issues women confront when faced with an unintended pregnancy. It is important that women have the social supports they need in order to decide to parent. The saddest thing in the world is a woman who has an abortion who really wanted the child. We have to help women who want to become parents do so, just as we have to help women who do not want to continue pregnancies obtain safe, legal and affordable abortion services.

Does anyone even know what our country was built on?

I am Pro-life; however I do understand that for some women, and some situation, a woman may feel that there is no other way. My heart goes out to those women. But instead of teacher or kindergardeners, our babies about BIRTH CONTROL; why don't we help our children to understand the outcome of sex. The things that could hapen as a result of having sex. Sex is not a bad thing, it is completely natural and it is a beautiful thing that God has given us to reproduce and populate the world. Children and/or teenagers should be taught to take responsibility for their actions. If they are mature and grown enough to lay down with the oposite sex they shoud be able to handle raising a child. Or giving that child to adoptive parents that want so badly to have a baby. There is always a CHOICE; but murder is not one of them!

Who spoke on the pro-life side?

I'm hearing it was only Democrats for Life (Though Catholic Health was supposedly on the call their recent actions make me doubt their pro-life credentials.)

Nat'l Right to Life Committee has yet to get the memo

Someone should tell the National Right to Life Committee and its state affiliates to quit referring to President Obama as "the most pro-abortion President in our nation's history" in their fundraising calls and letters.

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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