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12-02-2011, 05:15 AM

astral1515
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In the recent months, during the republican debates, there has been much talk on the issue of abortion. Republican candidate hopeful Rick Santorum recently said this during one of his speeches, “The reason social security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion." I find his argument extremely insensitive to the basic civil rights that every human should have. He is also placing the blame of a larger social issue on the shoulders of women who are doing nothing other than exercising their civil liberties. It is these kinds of statements from the anti-choice side that confirms my belief that they do not yet understand the importance of maintaining the rights of all of our citizens, for the derogation of one leads to the derogation of others.
12-02-2011, 02:04 PM

Cracam
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asral1515 so then you have to agree that he was right from a fact point of view but not right from a politically-correct point of view. Many of our social programs were developed when the avg. family had 3.5 children, not 1.6 or so. It wasn't even fathomed back in the 40's,50's,60's that women would abort babies without a medical complication. So the Right blaming pro-abortion for our defecit in Social Security and other social programs is factually correct...it would be tantamount to blame men for the costs of prisions since more men than women per capita are institutionalized, and/or blaming blacks for prision costs due to proportionally more blacks are incarserated than other groups...
12-05-2011, 11:47 AM
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Then could you also blame the medical profession for allowing to people to live to longer? It wasn't even fathomed in the 40's, 50's, or 60's that people would regularly living into their late 70's, 80's and even 90's.

You could blame the lack of young people contributing to Social Security to condoms and other birth control. The argument Santorum made is ridiculous any way you cut it. Blaming the failing of social security on people's choice not to have children is not just politically incorrect, it's absurd.

Santorum also tried to to imply that if you make abortion illegal it will help solve the Social Security problem and that is not close to true at all. It will more than likely put a greater strain on our welfare system but is just a theoretical assumption.
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