Black lives matter only when a cop puts down a knucklehead, not when Planned Parenthood kills 1,500 A DAY (Normandy invasion type casualty numbers). There should be 65 MILLION blacks in the US since Roe v. Wade, but now there are only 40 million; black lives matter. Do that to any so-called at-risk animal, and you go to jail. Do that to a human, and it's a "convenience."

"But I do not buy that most humans want to end life."
As noted in a previos post, the data backs you up. Less than half of unintended pregnancies end in abortion.

"...people seem..." is hardly objective. Do you have data and analysis to support the assertion that availability of abortions has decreased personal responsibility?

There are many factors that could cause it - if indeed the rate were increasing. It requires a multivariate analysis to even start to get at the root of it. Anytime you find yourself saying or implying there are no other causes you've likely committed a serious error in logic.

For example, the increasing welfare state could easily be the cause. The increasing nanny state could as well. Poverty can also be a significant driver in that the data does show abortions, as well as many other issues, have a strong correlation with income level. That all assumes the rate is rising. The data show it is not. The data shows abortions are decreasing.

For example:
In 2011, approximately 1.06 million abortions took place in the U.S., down from an estimated 1.21 million abortions in 2008, 1.29 million in 2002, 1.31 million in 2000 and 1.36 million in 1996. From 1973 through 2011, nearly 53 million legal abortions occurred in the U.S. (AGI).

Based on available state-level data, an estimated 984,000 abortions took place in 2013—down from an estimated 1.02 million abortions in 2012.

Objectively speaking, abortions are on the decrease.

Some other bits the data tells us that counter many claim about who is having them. Nearly 3/4ths of abortions are had by people claiming a religious affiliation.

Only 56% of abortions are for single, non-cohabitating women. 69% are "economically disadvantaged". Self-identification as protestants accounted for 37% and Catholic accounted for 28%.

About half of all pregnancies in the U.S. were unplanned. Of those, only 40% were aborted. According to the CDC in 2011, unmarried women accounted for 85.5% of all abortions.

When you look at this data some other data makes sense, and isn't at all racist. Yes, black women are nearly four times more likely to have an abortion. However, that doesn't mean it is racial. Given the above we know that being a 20-something, single, non-cohabitating woman greatly increases the chances you'll be aborting. And yet this is the category a great many black women find themselves in. Thus it should not be at all shocking for the aforementioned result.

We can also learn the assertion that those aborting are simply irresponsible is also not indicated by the data: only 8% of women having an abortion were not using any form of birth control. Granted that is self-reported data, but it does get broken down into more fine-grained such as frequency, etc. but this comment is already fairly long.

Given the motives and mentality of the American Intelligentsia, be vary cautious of what things "seem" to be like. Looking into the data very often shows the inverse of what is claimed.

Summary: Abortion is not on the rise, and there is no correlation between an increasing legal availability of it and the incidence or rate of it. As there is no correlation, I think that should pretty well eliminate the notion that increasing legal availability of it causes abortion to increase.

It IS a hypothesis. A theory is something that's PROVEN. Being able to cook up an explanation for some data is NOT a proof.

There is no "Free"

Someone has to pay, and for "Free" that means the taxpayer. No thank you.

TANSTAAFL

Your position is contradictory.

If you acknowledge that the rate of abortion in the black community is the result of lack of responsibility on their part, then it IS NOT GENOCIDE. That is a label used deliberately because of the emotional charge it carries. The implication being that a race other than black is deliberately targeting them. Which facts do not support.

Question for you..............

Why does it matter what race is being aborted???

Either abortion is wrong for all, or it is right for all.

You cannot pick and choose your morality based on race.
Race is a human social construct, not species differentiation.

Oddly enough, I dislike abortion, but my reasons are far different than yours.

Thank God (LOL) I'm not alone!

It isn't exactly a reasonable argument to assert that the lack of "breakthroughs" from a line of research which has not been allowed to be pursued is a reason not to pursue it.

This is no different than the argument that because we don't have modern studies on the beneficial effects of certain hallucinogenic drugs in the treatment of various ills such as alcohol addiction, PTSD, etc. because we prohibit them we shouldn't allow them to take place.

You keep asking this as if it were some wooden stake to a vampire, but it begs a question making this one meaningless: What is "life?"

Until you define what you mean by "life begins", your question has no value because it can not be answered.

We've got a program for saving the earth; while unborn children are denied their right to birth. One baby's blessed; another cursed. Have we made this world better or worse now that the life of a tree comes first? -Russ Lee

Tissue harvesting is one of the biggest profit centers for the large hospital systems. A friend of mine was on a tissue team and quoted me the prices once. Amazing how much the hospital get paid for a dib of this and a dab of that. But it's illegal to pay the families anything.

D'oh! I actually agree with her. I have never understood how evolution was supposed to make logical sense.Where is the evidence of the "transitional" organisms? How do we explain organisms that need ALL of their parts in order to function? I believe someone or something must have started the ball rolling, but I do not believe that this someone or something has any interest in our daily lives.
BTW - If anyone can recommend a book that logically explains evolution, please post it. I want to follow the most logical point of view, and I wouldn't mind being proven wrong. (It would certainly make my life easier!)

I don't understand your argument. If you don't want a baby, then don't get pregnant. There are numerous types of birth control available. Don't create a life just to kill it.

Perfect comparison!

Riding in a car is not the same as supporting completely a fetus. If you insist on this argument, it is clear that you have no philosophical interest in discussing this within reason, but you are pushing your belief system. That's fine, just call it what it is. From the moment of conception, a woman becomes a slave to your belief system. Trust me, if males could get pregnant this conversation would not be happening.

Wrong question. The RIGHT to life comes from intelligence.

I am totally with you. My husband goes to "visit" his dead father occasionally at the cemetery, and I've never understood this. Pay respects, okay; but visit?
BTW - Sadly, animals are treated much more compassionately than fetuses (feti?) these days

Okay; but at least be properly informed - Mandatory ultrasound before abortion. You will not see "cells." You will see arms, legs, fingers, toes, a beating heart and a functioning brain.