BUENOS AIRES — Argentina on Wednesday became the largest nation in Latin America to legalize abortion, a landmark vote in a conservative region and a victory for a grass-roots movement that turned years of rallies into political power.
The high-stakes vote, during 12 hours of often dramatic debate in the Senate, gripped the nation and exposed the tensions between a conservative society long influenced by the Roman Catholic Church, and a more secular generation that is fired up by a growing feminist movement.
I don't see how we humans cannot stop the occurrence of unwelcome pregnancies. We have the technology. Now comes the education and the availability in the people's hands.
Good news. Government and politicians should never be involved in such a personal decision.
The anti-abortion movement always was phony, anyway.
In this world, humans are in danger all of the time in many situations, and nobody cares. How many people live in war zones or just plain poverty? Just in this country alone, this week, one of the "pro-lifes" on USMB responded to a story about a woman trying to feed three kids on no income with a smirky "where's her husband" rather than figuring out how to feed these kids. The "pro-lifes," even in the times before Covid, never put out any plan about where unwanted babies go once they are born. Nothing. Now the ranks of foster kids are swelling, and they aren't finding homes.
We have the technology to greatly lessen the instance of unwanted pregnancy, and all society needs to do is get it in the right hands, but this is opposed by the "pro-lifes," who apparently would prefer abortion. What do they want? What is their motive? They have something up their sleeves but don't want to talk about it. We know that humans have had sex since the beginning of time and that most of the time the men and women who do it don't want an offspring. Saying that I heard as a child about parents of seven or eight: "Catholic or careless?"
With this sort of bizarre and sly behavior, there is no reason to allow these people to dictate public policy for the entire nation.
