tailgater wrote:Getting an abortion does not show "personal responsibility". In fact, it is the antithesis.
No... the antithesis would be having another person pay for the raising of your child.
If you are making sure that the responsibility in question (18+ years of food, housing and education) never occurs, and you are doing it on your own dime, then you are taking responsibility for the issue.
How about a less inflammatory analogy:
You have a house which requires constant electricity.
The welfare mother would be looking for handouts to pay her electric bill (ala octomom)
The pro-life vision is that the mother get a job and pay her damn electric bill
The pro-choice vision is that she install a fully functional and maintenance free solar array on her damn house and eliminate the need to pay her monthly bill.
both choice 2 and 3 are showing personal responsibility by resolving the problem. One, through constant maintenance and effort, the other through a single permanent solution.