How did it become a agenda for anti government chants?... The
manpower issue is a birth rate issue, never an abortion issue.
If you would check the US statistics on abortions, you would see a drop in
abortion AFTER legalising abortion. (Link here)(If it interest you, read up on Roe vs
Wade)
(The court found that a mother had a right
to abortion until viability, a point to be determined by the
abortion doctor. After viability a woman can obtain an abortion for
health reasons, which the Court defined broadly to include
psychological well-being.)- quoted wiki in parenthesis.
Just for thoughts, picture how unsafe illegal abortion clinics
would be without government regualtion....
Not anti-government chant lah...
If you ignore the number of abortions ..yet focus only on
increasing birth rates...
It's akin to drawing water with a leaking bucket.
Make Singapore more family friendly and condusive for youngsters
to start a family.. AND try to plug the loss due to abortions.
There are still plenty of illegal abortions in the USA... their
practices are shoddy, unsanitary.. and God knows how many teenagers
they've damaged.
USA is all about their Constitution. Anything remotely
un-constitutional is swiftly struck down.
Religion plays a very heavy role ...Roman Catholics and
Christianity are all Pro-Life...even if the Courts agree to it..
Religiously, abortion is widely forbidden.
ADD: On top of religious obligations.. the advancement of
Paternity Tests, Paternity laws and child support enforcements
helps ensure women no longer have to face out of wedlock pregnancy
alone and stripped of resources.
Even Steve Jobs tried to deny his first child.. to the extend he
declared to be sterile in court papers... until paternity tests
proved he is indeed the child's father. After which he did
establish a relationship and sent her to Havard.
