Roe v. Wade

Uncool. Indiana legislature aims to outlaw abortion. One in five pregnancies = abortion, according to their numbers. Actual numbers substantiated by the CDC can be found here. Seems to be a reasonable correlation.

If you want to prevent abortions, how about you start with preventing conceptions? Abstinence-only education doesn't work, but condoms sure as hell do. And when condoms or common sense fail, you have Plan B. And when that fails, you have surgery. Without the option of which, you're going to see a lot more women who "fell down the stairs" or had a nasty encounter with a coathanger, ergot, mistletoe tea or a slippery elm stick. I went to my hometown over the holiday and in fifteen minutes of gossip with a girl I barely remembered, I heard about how a ridiculous number of the people I knew had either gotten (multiple) girls pregnant, or who had gotten knocked up themselves. Now that's rural Illinois. And at least when I was kicking around, the rape and incest victims were a bit too young to catch child. But, as a rule, most aren't too young. And wouldn't you at least want an exception from having to bear and/or raise the offspring of some selfish sadist if you had the unfortunate luck of being in his way at the wrong time? And think of the rural population who can't necessarily make it out to a more enlightened region for treatment. It's like the girl who was refused emergency contraception by a Target pharmacist on the grounds that the pharmacist morally objected. What recourse to the girls, thus denied, who do conceive if such actions are not restricted and if bills like this are passed?

It's like the people who argue that pedophilia is marginally understandable because our species so lately bred at a tender age. Regardless of the fact that in our modern society, a fourteen year old is no more capable of complete social responsibility than a toddler because of how our social development is implemented. Nothing good can come of it.