John Schlitt To Guest On Beyond The Riff, Sunday Oct.2

[imc]

I'm staunchly pro-life, but often at the simplistic views conservatives have of the issue. The horrifying truth is that currently abortion is a "solution" to a very serious problem of unwanted children. If the availability of abortion reduces in an significant amount, are we "pro-lifers" up to the challenge of being a godly solution to this problem? Will we all seriously consider adoption? Will we support young single mums who are living with the consequences of their mistakes? Will we support the increases in taxes required to cover the child care, schooling, and policing of this extra population? How will we respond to the increase in crime we'll be facing? (read Donohue & Levill on The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime for more on that).

Don't get me wrong, I think abortion is the greatest and most widespread crime against humanity since the slave trade was abolished, but it's so embedded into society and its affects so widereaching that tackling it cannot be a case of "Let's prohibit it (either total or partial)". When you are looking at the wider issues it becomes more apparent that the policy on abortion individual parties have is very insignificant in the grand scheme of things. You can be pro life and still vote democrat!

[gman]

We've made our own bed on the abortion issue by teaching our children it's okay to have seks early and often.

[executioner]

I'm staunchly pro-life, but often at the simplistic views conservatives have of the issue. The horrifying truth is that currently abortion is a "solution" to a very serious problem of unwanted children. If the availability of abortion reduces in an significant amount, are we "pro-lifers" up to the challenge of being a godly solution to this problem? Will we all seriously consider adoption? Will we support young single mums who are living with the consequences of their mistakes? Will we support the increases in taxes required to cover the child care, schooling, and policing of this extra population? How will we respond to the increase in crime we'll be facing? (read Donohue & Levill on The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime for more on that).

Don't get me wrong, I think abortion is the greatest and most widespread crime against humanity since the slave trade was abolished, but it's so embedded into society and its affects so widereaching that tackling it cannot be a case of "Let's prohibit it (either total or partial)". When you are looking at the wider issues it becomes more apparent that the policy on abortion individual parties have is very insignificant in the grand scheme of things. You can be pro life and still vote democrat!

My question is for your last sentence, how?