Decreasing Abortion

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Getting right to it. Abortion. Nobody loves it. However, we can not make abortion illegal for many reasons, but that is not what this policy is about.

Decrease unwanted pregnancy. That is the only way to decrease abortions. Weather it is because you believe abortion is murder or because abortion is dangerous, as all procedures can be. Or because it hurts, it is expensive and can cause psychological distress. The only way to fix this social issue is to stop unwanted pregnancy.

Birth control can fail, condoms fail. Abstinence is best, but passion takes over. People are horney for biological reasons that we all understand. Hormonal birth control has sideffects. These sideffects plague may women, many that I believe do not even realize birth control is to blame. Hair loss, depression, crippling fatigue, abdomen pain, constant bleeding, brain fog, mood swings. All symptoms I have experienced myself from may different forms of hormonal birth control, even one being the copper IUD, non hormonal.

The system isn’t working. Women are saying no to birth control more and more. I was 36 when I denounced birth control. I am married, however, we can not support anymore children. When I said bye bye birth control, sex became anxiety inducing. I was consumed with worry until my next period, even though we were very carful. Eventually I discovered a solution that has always been there, and it is so simple. Like so many of the solutions to the health care problems MAHA has exposed.

The obvious solution. I watch pro-life people scream from the roof tops their views with no solution other than making abortion illegal. The sorce of the problem will remain, unwanted pregnancy. Many parts of society must be reformed to decrease abortion. Abuse, drug addiction, homeless, poverty. Kennedy has spoke on these issues. I believe the number one best solution to stop most unwanted pregnancies is education.

Sex ED in this country is a joke. Kids learn about their changing bodies, how babies are made, and thats is it. “The talk” for some parents can be agonizing. Many kids know nothing about their reproductive health. I was 36 when I actually learned how my cycle works. Most of the female population are handed birth control shortly after their first period and the rest is completely ignored.

The menstral cycle. That is the key to one of the most controversial issues of society. We must start intensive education for girls and women in America on this topic. There are some obstacles, like menstrual dysfunction, but the efforts of MAHA can and will correct that problem. A woman with the knowledge to understand her cycle and the different phases is a massive advantage to avoiding pregnancy. Period. There are only about 6 days out of the month when a woman could get pregnant. SIX!! We ovulate one day out of the month! I guarantee most women, especially teens, do not understand this vital information.

Education is key. Learning about a woman’s menstrual cycle needs to be ingrained into our society, it needs to be normalized. We need to improve the health of our girls, so they may track and understand their cycle. This will decrease unwanted pregnancies and decrease abortion. That is the best first step in seeing real results on this issue.

Obviously that is basically a free solution, and someone will lose a lot of money if birth control use plummets. The push back from many will argue, young girls and young woman do not care about learning how to avoid pregnancy by learning their cycle. “They want a quick fix.” I do not believe that for a second. If we tell our kids the truth about birth control, the truth about pregnancy, the truth about abortion, they will listen. If women become invested in understanding their cycle, unwanted pregnancies will all but disappear.

Free apps for teens and women. Free high quality education in school and online programs. Normalizing the education of menstrual cycles before puberty. Educating our boys as well. This is the future of reproductive education. Menstrual cycle education seems so minuscule on the long list of issues we have, but over a short period of time, this skill will improve the quality of life for so many people. This will improve society in so many ways.

Instead of fighting eachother over weather or not and in what cases abortion should be an option. We should be taking real action to decrease unwanted pregnancies now.

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Yes yes and YES!!!

I would also like to add sex education that will deal with the mental health of young people, learning to respect each other and physical boundaries, as well as addressing the sexual culture our society seems to be thriving on today. This sex education will have to address all aspects. You are correct in saying that abortion will never go away, but we should strive to decrease it as much as we possibly can with preventative measures such as these. We need to bring back the innocence of our children.

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Agree. Sex ed needs a complete re-vamp. Addressing the sexualized pop culture is a great idea. This should be more than just one class one day. Reproductive health is so important and it gets glazed over. It’s crazy!!

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I agree! Preventative measures should be at the forefront of this issue.

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I agree. We should improve sex education. I’m not sure if they’re really offering true “sex education” anymore though. If they refuse to identify our biological sex differences or point out that the biological function of sex is reproduction, how is that even sex education.

Here’s other topics that I think should be taught, in high school. We should:

<<<Pass a law that in order to get federal funding, high schools must make a graduation requirement and colleges make an admission requirement students must first pass an awareness class, taught by a non-school, non-teacher union, non-ideological, independent contractor, using a transparent curriculum available to the public online, regarding:

-what abortion procedures are really like

-fetal & child development

-all the resources available to low income moms

-basic parenting skills & perspectives from moms about what motherhood is really like and its challenges and rewards

-primary attachment theory

-physical/psychological risks & experiences of pregnancy and abortion

-the causes & harmful effects of toxic stress against pregnant moms and our babies

-the harms of absent fatherhood

-awareness about all forms of abuse, including narcissistic abuse, economic abuse and coercive control
ADHD.

-awareness about all forms of, and the harms of, exploitation of women’s bodies, all forms of sexual coercion, pregnancy coercion, abortion coercion and our “player culture”

-biological sex differences between men and women

-adoption awareness, especially for children with Down Syndrome

-perspectives and experiences from children and parents about the causes, challenges, rewards and parenting/child-care strategies for various disabilities and learning disorders, especially for Down Syndrome, Autism & ADHD>>>>

For more of my policy proposals related to these issues, please view it here:

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Yes to all that, with emphasis on teaching kids about abusive relationships. Wow that would have been nice to understand. Kids that grow up in a household where that doesn’t happen have no tools to cope with abuse from a partner, especially if parents never spoke on it.

Id like to add, teaching our kids about breastfeeding and the vast benefits, normalizing breastfeeding beyond age 2.

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This is exactly what I’ve been saying. Abortion is a symptom of the real problem. We need better teachings on sex education. It should be every year, it should be mandatory. They need to do better than, “just don’t have sex” like a lot of schools do.

Then there’s the other problem of rape. I don’t remember one sex ed class I took that told me about consent, what it is and what SA is. I can’t speak for what the girls were taught but my ex told me that she wasn’t taught she could give consent and then change her mind or where she could go when something happens. The other thing is porn addictions being rampant. Porn needs way more regulations on it. Not just a button that says I’m over 18. Serial killers, serial rapists, Ted Bundy, all say they were exposed to porn at young ages and they needed worse and worse porn to satiate themselves. When that stopped being good enough they turned to that evil.

Then the other thing is fixing our foster care systems. So many kids are being abused and the left always says the right don’t care about kids after they’re born. That needs to change. Kids need free healthcare for one, they need to stop the people that are using adoption as a way to get money. CPS needs to do better investigations in abuse cases.

Both sides ignore the real problem with abortion. Abortion is a symptom, a symptom of bad education, a symptom of rape, a symptom of bad adoption agencies and we need to focus on those problems.

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Whoo, that is a lot, but it is real. Porn is a problem, and it is ignored. Teen boys especially younger than teen, should NEVER be exposed to porn. It effects their veiw of women for life…

Abuse in marriage or otherwise is a factor. We talk about rape being an acceptable reason for abortion. We assume this is a case of a young woman caught in an unfortunate situation with a stranger as she is held down against her will. However, no one talks about the rape that is, i believed, far more common. A married women will not report her husband. It doesn’t make sense to most of society. How could a man rape his wife?

Most people can not fathom that nightmare. So, when people pass judgement, all I can think is, you are so fortunate to not understand why she chose abortion. We need to fix so many parts of society. I think it all starts at birth.

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This is the policy we need:

Simply recognize all unborn children as human beings from conceptipn, and all murder laws will instantly apply.

We can also cosify the scientific definitions for male and female in the same bill, which would solve a plethora of these problems.

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This has nothing to do with decreasing unwanted pregnancies. You are completely ignoring the real issues.

What you call for is not realistic. Making abortion equil to murder is, unhinged. Abortion is not murder for multiple reasons, that I know you understand.

If you cared about women, children, and quality of life, then you would be more focused on decreasing unwanted pregnancies thus, decreasing abortion.

If you force women to carry unwanted pregnancies, you are the sorce of oppression. You are putting women in danger.

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Many states have programs where you request condoms online and they will mail them to you. I’m for increasing access to all contraceptive methods. I’m even for “vouchers” or health departments being able to perform free vasectomies and yearly checks for men. I’m for 0 questions asked about women wanting tubals and such (and again maybe a voucher program). I’m for better sex ed. I’m for women getting free HCG strips so they can check themselves weekly if they’re active (you can get a 50 pack for $20 online or maybe health department can mail out).

With all of that said there is some degree of personal responsibility in avoiding pregnancy if you can’t/don’t want it to happen. Especially if all of the above is in place. If a woman is testing every week or two for pregnancy a 6 or 8 week limit wouldn’t be as much of a hinderance.

Also I’m for revamping the adoption system as well to make it easier for all families who want a child and can provide a safe home. Maybe tax credits or other incentive for continuing a pregnancy to term and putting up for adoption?

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We also need medical RESEARCH into finding BETTER SOLUTIONS to pregnancy complications. If half of society cares so much about women and the other half cares about babies, the best solution to decreasing abortion is to provide accessible better resources.

  • Medical research into surgical solutions that save ectopic pregnancies
  • Medical research to solve preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, etc
  • Insured prenatal and postpartum care
  • Government funded birth care (Everyone benefits from doctors bringing them into this world. This funding wouldn’t be like free college education)

Eliminate the reasons women resort to abortions by providing better solutions.

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I absolutely agree with the education and prevention approach.

Once you are pregnant you have 2 choices if you don’t want the child; abortion or adoption. I think it’d be nice if there were government programs that covered the medical costs of unwanted pregnancies.

I think if you’re pregnant and you don’t want to keep the child it’s a hard sell to say to a woman keep the baby and experience all the physiological effects and changes from pregnancy and birth and also get saddled with outrageous medical bills. Cost of care is a separate issue, but until that’s resolved on it’s own, I think programs should exist to support women who choose life of their child and alleviate the financial burden.

To my knowledge, its currently far cheaper to get an abortion, in most cases, than to carry to term and deliver.

I don’t know if something already exists or not, but the argument I hear often is pro-life people care about the life of the child up until its born, so I think this is one way where we can support choosing life.

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Your understanding is illogical and false.

Our founding documents could not be more clear - every human being has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

That simple truth makes every abortion murder, period.

Killing children doesn’t undue rape. Killing children doesn’t lead to ‘freedom’. Killing children is always bad, period. It’s oppressive, evil, and wrong to kill babies because the mother doesn’t want one.

If a Mother doesn’t want a child, she can’t kill her babies, but she CAN take precautions to ensure she never gets pregnant in the first place. But children are a blessing. A woman will feel no greater joy than having a child. Killing the children is never ok.