Friday, March 13, 2015

Abortion before human trafficking?

On March 13th, 2015, Red State published a blog titled Democrats Put Abortion before Helping Human Trafficking Victims.
The author of this post is an orthodox christian named Jake, who has a masters degree in history living. He is conservative, and this post is geared towards a Conservative audience. The issue of abortion is very partisan with the left being pro-choice, and the right being pro-life.
The post argues that Liberal senators are not willing to cooperate with a bill to aid victims of human trafficking, because of an amendment in it that prohibits the funds from being used for abortions. According to Jake, the Liberal leaders were at first willing to stand by the grant, but this was only because they had not read the document well enough. It goes on to give direct quotes from Democratic senators who, upon discovery of the anti-abortion language in the bill, plainly refused to pass it. If these quotes are real it is shocking that these representatives are so unwilling to entertain this bill, just to show their loyalty to their pro-choice following. It makes sense that the federal government would not be willing to cover abortions for the victims, if it is a big problem then there likely are many victims. Abortions for every victim would be very costly for a nation already in high debt.
I am very surprised by the content of this post. I am pro-choice myself, however Jake did well in convincing me that what the senators are doing is wrong. The use of the quotes, as well as showing how at first they were willing to back the bill, are good arguments. I think he did well in showing us that the only reason these senators will not pass this is because of the clause about abortion. It goes to show how far politicians are willing to go to look good, the Democrats will take what they did out of context and show it to their audience as if they did something noble. I wonder if people's minds would change if they were given the bigger picture.

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