Hello Dan!

14 Jun 19 14:55, Dan Clough wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:


 GK>> So in this case, being able to have an abortion or not will
 GK>> depend on the money available to travel there.

 DC> Sure, I guess so.
 DC> One could always hitchhike, for free.

 DC> Was your point to illustrate how unfair the world is, and how 
 DC> everybody is not "equal"?

No, not in the first place. My point would be then, that changing your laws
does not primarily change facts (i.e., lower the number of abortions), but
rather just increases inequality between people with and without money... which
is not what people usually will tell you the new laws are made for.

 DC> Guess what?  That is CORRECT.  The world *IS* unfair, and not 
 DC> everybody is "equal".  Yep.  Truth.

And these days laws are usually made to overcome this, not to put unfairness
and inequality into stone, aren't they?

However, you brought up that topic (glad you did, though), but I was actually
thinking about different things. However, I'll have to tell a bit about my
family to explain:
My grandmother became a children's nurse during WWII, working in a makeshift
children's hospital most of the time. After the war, she was so fed up with
working in a hospital that she went into schooling again and became a midwife.
Believe me, you wouldn't have wanted to hear her wartime stories, nor about
what desperate people do to their newly born unwanted children, or how they try
to abort pregnancies without proper medical aid available. If you did, you'd
know that making abortions illegal again is nothing you'd really want.

If you want to lower the number of abortions, you don't need to change "too
liberal" abortion laws. This will just drive people who can afford out of the
country and people who cannot afford into solutions nobody wants. Can you
imagine people doing an abortion just "for the fun" in it, or just because
"they can"? What you'll need to do is pretty obvious:

- educate people
- make contraceptives easily available
- make baby hatches easily available


Regards,
Gerrit

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