Grayma
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A couple years ago I read a study that said statistically, the demographic most in favor of unrestricted abortion rights was young men in their teens and twenties.
I agree with you, except I think that stand-up dads would not completely alleviate the problem.
We have two unofficial foster sons of a single mom. We do what we do to try to help, not because we have any official standing in their lives at all. The boys spend weekends and holidays with us, and stayed with us for almost all of last summer and the one before. Sometimes for several months of the year they are with us more than with thier mother. We met her when she was just about to have the second child, her third child with a third father. I was the first to hold that new baby. I was the only person there holding her hand in delivery (except the doctor and a nurse).
There is more to this than just fathers who leave. There are choices she has made, too. I know nothing about the first father. The second father wanted to stay together and has tried to be involved, but she won't let him. The third father already had several children by several women, and she knew that, and according to what she told me, she decided to get pregnant anyway. Most of her friends are single moms by choice.
The Gosnell story isn't just about whether he broke the law by delivering viable full term babies and stabbing them to death. It's also about how careless the state was about oversight of the clinic because abortions rights are such a sacred cow the 'rights' take precedence over the women and their health (he also killed at least two women, and mutilated many others so they will never have more children):
*The Pennsylvania Department of Health knew of clinic violations dating back decades, but did nothing;
*The Pennsylvania Department of State was “repeatedly confronted with evidence about Gosnell” – including the clinic’s unclean, unsterile conditions, unlicensed workers, unsupervised sedation, underage abortion patients, and over-prescribing of pain pills with high resale value on the street – “and repeatedly chose to do nothing.”
*Philadelphia Department of Public Health officials who regularly visited Gosnell’s human waste-clogged offices did nothing;
*Nearby hospital officials who treated some of the pregnant mothers who suffered grave complications from Gosnell’s butchery did nothing; and
*The National Abortion Federation, the leading association of abortion providers that is supposed to uphold strict health and legal standards, determined that Gosnell’s chamber of horrors was “the worst abortion clinic she had ever inspected” – but did nothing.
The Grand Jury Report on it is nightmarish reading.