Why haven't we learned yet?

On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade the two sides of the abortion cause have gotten no further then they were on that day 35 years ago when the Supreme Court decided on the case.

The Pro-Life side wants to abolish the procedure totally, while the Pro-Choice want to expand it.

So why is it so hard for this thing to be solved? who knows.

I myself have to side with the Pro-Choice group.

While I detest the practice of abortion I cannot for the life of me tell a woman what to do with her body.

Nor can I hold a doctor responsible for murder if he/she has no choice but to abort a fetus in the saving of a mothers life.

I understand that the pro-life side is heavily involved in religion, and that most of their views come about from trying to think about how God would deal with this. However that way of thinking is not going to solve this problem. God apparently has decided to not answer the question of abortion, seeing that abortions have been going on for a lot longer than Roe v. Wade has been around.

Now that doesn't mean that the other side is doing a very good job at solving this issue either.

While they are trying to keep the practice legal, they seem to be putting less time into stopping the problem of unwanted pregnancy.

Actually neither side is handling the issue of unwanted pregnancy very well.

We have to bring ourselves into the new century. We have to understand that just "say no" doesn't work in the real world. In the real world young adults are having sex and in the real world they are not being told about prevention.

It should be our ultimate goal to get kids to follow the abstinence route. Not only because of unwanted pregnancies, but also because of sexually transmitted diseases. But it is unrealistic to assume that simple words, or for that matter ancient scripture, is going to do any good.

We have to be prepared to take all avenues in this battle, both sides are going to have to realize that they need to work together to solve this problem. Even then both sides are going to have to understand that the issue will never fully go away.

If abortion is outlawed then women will just go back to back alley procedures, and we remember how those turned out.

For the sake of all women we must keep the procedure legal, but also for the sake of all women we must come up with sensible ways to stop the pregnancies from occurring in the first place.