Comments on: Abortion Raises Illegitimacy Rate

By: Please Post - Chapter 4 at MInTheGap

Please Post - Chapter 4 at MInTheGap — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:01:25 +0000

[...] tackle this very issue in a post I have entitled Abortion Raises Illegitimacy Rate where I quote John R. Lott Jr in the Wall Street Journal: Many academic studies have shown that [...]

By: MInTheGap

MInTheGap — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:32:38 +0000

It’s funny because abortion has done the exact opposite of everything it was supposed to do– as far as empower women, lower child abuse rates, create children that are wanted, etc. It’s actually led to the opposite. It is sad!

By: blondeblogger

blondeblogger — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:33:01 +0000

Such a good post! And all those who said abortion would lower child abuse rates were wrong, too, since those rates have skyrocketed since abortion became legal.

By: MInTheGap

MInTheGap — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:13:19 +0000

What problem did you have finding the comment window? Did you get confused by the new click to comment icons?

I’m sorry that you grew up without a father, Anna. I’m even more sad because I believe your analysis to be true– and that means more children without dads.

By: Anna S

Anna S — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:07:13 +0000

I had trouble finding the comment window last time I visited!

Anyway, you touch a great point here. The entire attitude towards sex: lack of commitment, easy access to birth control and abortion on demand - all of this is has given us a fatherless generation. I’m one fatherless child. I can tell you that my father walked away precisely because of this. He tried to pressure my mother to have an abortion, and when she refused, he walked away with an easy heart, justifying himself by saying, ‘well, it’s HER fault. It was so easy to get rid of our little problem, so why didn’t she do that?’

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:54:54 +0000

Now if we can just figure out a way to connect The Terrorists and The War On Terror to abortion….

By: Leticia

Leticia — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:37:51 +0000

No matter how you look at it, abortion has become an easy way out of responsibility for men and women. It gives them permission to sleep with whomever they choose and if a child happens to be conceived in that union they have the legal right to murder that unborn child.

What a wonderful we live in. *sigh*

By: MInTheGap

MInTheGap — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:46:41 +0000

Good point, Rebecca. Especially when you take into account that the man had a part in conceiving the child as well!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:16:29 +0000

One could also say that women having all the rights to choose whether to keep the child, abort it, or whatever is a genuine disincentive for the man to be involved. Let’s face it - the woman holds all the rights, while the man’s only choice is whether to marry her or not.