Re: abortion - I'm glad that even though you don't approve of it personally, you still agree it should be an option (I don't find that stance offensive, I can deal with that).
I consider myself pro-choice, with that said I agree strongly that steps to make it preventable are a good and necessary thing (especially increasing access to birth control, and reducing poverty). I also have thoughts about the breakdown of the extended family and how hard it is to raise kids in a nuclear family or as a single parent, it's easier (for some measure of "easy", parenting is still a tough job) when you've got grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other people involved.
One of the problems I have with pro-life rhetoric here in the States is that a lot of so-called pro-life people here are against things like welfare/assistance and I'm like "so basically you want to force children to starve". Not to mention what you pointed out, that there are far worse things happening in the world that the pro-life movement seems to completely ignore; it is indeed obnoxiously hypocritical to me that the pro-life movement in the States is all like "bUt TeH uNbOrN" when there are people suffering and dying all around them.
So yes, I'm in favor of reducing the need for abortion, while still keeping it safe and legal.
Onto Duolingo...
I hope you can reach number 1 in Diamond League! Meanwhile I've resigned myself to getting demoted because it's too much of a struggle to pull myself up past #45 in my particular Diamond League. People need to calm down XD
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I consider myself pro-choice, with that said I agree strongly that steps to make it preventable are a good and necessary thing (especially increasing access to birth control, and reducing poverty). I also have thoughts about the breakdown of the extended family and how hard it is to raise kids in a nuclear family or as a single parent, it's easier (for some measure of "easy", parenting is still a tough job) when you've got grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other people involved.
One of the problems I have with pro-life rhetoric here in the States is that a lot of so-called pro-life people here are against things like welfare/assistance and I'm like "so basically you want to force children to starve". Not to mention what you pointed out, that there are far worse things happening in the world that the pro-life movement seems to completely ignore; it is indeed obnoxiously hypocritical to me that the pro-life movement in the States is all like "bUt TeH uNbOrN" when there are people suffering and dying all around them.
So yes, I'm in favor of reducing the need for abortion, while still keeping it safe and legal.
Onto Duolingo...
I hope you can reach number 1 in Diamond League! Meanwhile I've resigned myself to getting demoted because it's too much of a struggle to pull myself up past #45 in my particular Diamond League. People need to calm down XD
Yay for inclusivity in the French course!