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"I Just Had to Do It"
No she didn't, but she blames George W. Bush anyway.
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Let's start with the obvious. If you have sex, babies can show up. If you engage in "unprotected" sex without wishing for a kid, you are being reckless. If you do so and don't feel like going to the trouble of calling around to find a doctor to prescribe the morning after pill, you aren't serious.
As for the abortion, you should feel like a pariah when scheduling one. Other than rape, you are pregnant by choice, if not by desire. The decision to have sex is about choice; the decision to have an abortion is about responsibility. Are you accountable for the mistakes that you make? Or is the unborn child within you responsible?
Dana L. faced a series of increasingly difficult decisions before she had her abortion. But she and her husband, not the administration, are responsible both for her pregnancy and her abortion.
About the Author
Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Senior Fellow in International Religious Persecution at the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics (Crossway).
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