Here is a task for you, gentle reader- if you exist; I think young Dave has stopped dropping by after I wandered off for so long. See if you can find any mention of abortion on the website of this political party that has been called, in this hyperbole-enriched time, 'Australia's Taliban'.
I couldn't.
Has the industrial scale disposal of surplus human beings really become so mainstream in our society that a party that is designed to appeal to social conservatives has to soft-pedal its opposition to abortion? Or don't they care? I guess I shall be voting for Fred Nile again, despite his wrong-headedness on Islam and homosexuality...
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I see a reference to 'safeguarding life' in their health policy. That's about it, though.
They don't mention homosexuals either, though a cynic might be tempted to read between the lines as to what constitutes a family unit.
Considering the excoriation they've been getting in the press (largely because the media is currently so bloodless about the major parties that their only avenue for decent journalistic antagonism are the traditional punching bags - the Greens - and the small target Christian conservatives like these guys), I'd use a softpedaling approach to my website too.
And Reverend Fred will, as usual, take last place on my preferences, for the aforementioned wrong-headedness (which I would elsewise categorise as 'vitriolic hatred', but concede to you your terminology).
Yes, I am not at all pleased with the vitriolic hatred. But complicity in genocide trumps it. If there was anybody else with even the faintest hope of winning a senate seat who had the gumption to say 'abortion is bad' on their website, they would have had me.
I kind of read about a real "wild card" to do with abortion, on "The Economist". It talked about a study which confirmed the hypothesis essentially that abortions prevent future criminals. Essentially, it analysed detailed statistics in states of the USA which prohibited abortion over a certain period, and the crime rate of the corresponding states a generation later. The conclusion was (for me) startling : - The states which prohibited abortions had higher and increasing crime rates a generation later: Those with more liberal abortion laws had reduced crime rates (both relatively and in absolute terms). For a non-commital person like me on this issue, this would definitely be an issue where I would conclude that effective prohibition is not the answer. Certainly, education on family planning and effective alternatives for "unplanned" children is something we could all push in the same direction for - also late terminations should also be viewed the same as infanticide; but we can't ignore the unintended future consequences either.
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