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If having a baby leads to "I have no money and a baby would crush all hopes of getting out of poverty for the foreseeable future", I wouldn't choose the lifestyle of sleeping around, as that is the natural consequence.
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If having a baby leads to "I have no money and a baby would crush all hopes of getting out of poverty for the foreseeable future", I wouldn't choose the lifestyle of sleeping around, as that is the natural consequence.
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People who use the term 'lifestyle choice' seem to use it very loosely and deliberately so.
Like, yes, technically it's a lifestyle choice not a medical necessity, but it's not really a lifestyle choice in the way we'd normally describe a lifestyle choice.
Just trying to compare it to the number that would be because of medical emergencies/rape or other extreme examples. Would be happy to be enlightened if untrue.
Just because I believe something is going to happen, doesn't mean I want it to happen.
Wow - you really outed yourself there.
It's always the most religious that are the most filled with hate but very little else. Go educate yourself - and from real facts, not your genocidal fairytale.
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Not quite what I meant.
People have an abortion for a myriad of reasons, and there's a lot of grey area between medical emergency/rape and lifestyle as a reason for an abortion. Extreme poverty is a massive reason, lack of access to contraception is another; you might be surprised that most abortions come from third world nations, with a lack of sex ed and easy access to condoms and the pill.
Here are some facts about abortion:
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Fact sheet on preventing unsafe abortion: Scope of the problem, who is at risk, signs and symptoms, treatment and care, prevention and control and economic impact.
But you believe that we deserve it on some level, no?
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I can't go clubbing as often and I've got insta responsibilities
Outed yourself as religious extremist, judging others based on no evidence. You've said that if a woman has an unwanted pregnancy it means she has been sleeping around. Xxxx x xxxxx xx xxxx.
Edit - just changed what I wrote as I may get a strike for it. Was just letting you know exactly what I think of you and others that think like this.
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You are smart and I enjoy learning from you.
Not so much " So poor people don't get sex because poor " but generally
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What you've just done there is pretty disgusting, Marcel.
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How so?
Killing people / potential people isn't too flash either is it ?
No doubt you reckon it's kosher
No I never said that. Merely stated that having sex regularly can lead to having an unwanted pregnancy. And that abortions can be a result of that. Seems like an extreme reaction towards me, almost hateful
Completely understand this, although I would say that if you don't have access to contraception, or don't have the resources to support a child, you are still choosing to have sex.Not quite what I meant.
People have an abortion for a myriad of reasons, and there's a lot of grey area between medical emergency/rape and lifestyle as a reason for an abortion. Extreme poverty is a massive reason, lack of access to contraception is another; you might be surprised that most abortions come from third world nations, with a lack of sex ed and easy access to condoms and the pill.
Here are some facts about abortion:
... with the most pertinent being this: the legal status of abortion does not affect how many abortions are done, and that illegal abortions result in dead women.Abortion
Fact sheet on preventing unsafe abortion: Scope of the problem, who is at risk, signs and symptoms, treatment and care, prevention and control and economic impact.www.who.int
But you believe that we deserve it on some level, no?
Didn't say that either. I believe that if I didn't have the resources to support a child, I would make choices to reduce the chance of a pregnancy, rather than choosing an abortionSo poor people don't get sex because poor.
Abortion is in a different camp IMO - but I would never, ever call THAT a lifestyle choice either.
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No. heck that.
Do we tell people not to walk around in case they get hit by a car?
Because, you know, choosing to get treatment is a lifestyle choice buddy.
Shoulda thought about that before you went out for milk. Too expensive to send an ambulance, reset your bones, provide physical therapy and all that.
Live with being physically crippled because your bones healed badly. Your own fault.
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Preaching abstinence is well and truly proven to not work, or be reflective of reality.
Because (a) the word "lifestyle" is far too flippant for an experience that a lot of people who go through it find to be really traumatic, and most of all (b) it's not a lifestyle or a lifestyle choice.
Working from home is a lifestyle choice. Being monogamous is a lifestyle choice. Not having kids is a lifestyle choice, but that's different to "having abortions" for a lifestyle choice.
When I walk to shops to buy milk, I walk on the footpath instead of down the middle of the road. I cross at traffic lights or when there is no traffic, rather than just choosing to blindly cross the road whenever.
Wouldn't they be smart choices? Wouldn't you encourage your children to do that?
I also wouldn't equate mending broken bones to aborting a child. Hope that doesn't make me an extremist
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What if you live somewhere without footpaths or traffic lights and have no choice?
Plenty of parts of the world have little or no access to contraception. Hell, in the US some political parties want to ban access to it.
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