Saturday, March 1, 2014

Abortion: Free Market Answers in a world that looks to the State.

As someone who is personally socially conservative and a Christian, I am outspokenly pro-life! Life begins at the moment of conception and we as a society have an obligation to protect human life the best possible way we know how- we need policies that decrease and hopefully END abortion.
Based upon my understanding of the U.S. Constitution and the dangerous nature of the Federal Government, I believe abortion is a State issues; that is, State Governments are the highest level of Government that the issue of abortion should be handled on. And I have been very open about my policy views with the Libertarian Party of Arkansas that I have no problem with our State regulating abortion.
This is just logical argument-IF it is true that government's role is to protect the life of individuals and IF it is true that a baby is a human, it goes to reason that the State has the authority to protect life. The 89th General Assembly passed a law essentially making abortion illegal in our State, a law that I was supportive of, however it was not my prefered method of decreasing or ending abortion.
As someone who believes in free market principles and the superior nature of the free market to solve the problems our society faces, my primary method of addressing abortion would not have been to run to the government for the answer.
My policy is to return to free market principles in many areas, including but not limited to:
-dergulating our economy, abolishing the income tax and the result thus being job growth and more money in the pockets of the ordinary man, this would allow women to be more likely to choose life knowing they (or their husband/spouse) have the money to provide for the baby.
-ending welfare; welfare I believe is a great catalyst for the destruction of the family and by ending abortion and allowing the free market to provide for the poor, the family would be strenghtened and people more likely to choose life.
-deregulation of adoption agencies; this would give women comfort and confidence that adoption is a more preferable method than abortion because they would know their child would go to a good family as opposed to growing up in an orphanage.
-Fixing Education; infusing competition into the education ring so that schools compete with one another for students and funding, this would give parents a much stronger ability to decide what their children are taught and cause schools to teach those value more closely associated with the parents themselves, therefore I believe teaching children the value of human life.
-Protecting religous liberty and the right to free speech; this would allow the battlefield of ideas to take place so people can continue to reason and debate one another on the important merits of pro-life views
...and as a Christian it protects my right to preach the Gospel of Christ, that men are sinners who have sinned against God and need forgiveness and are commanded to repent of their sins and put their faith in the God-Man Christ who is the only way anyone will every have peace with God the Father. (obviously I in no way mean to imply only Christians are prolife or that only the gospel can persuade people to pro-life views)
I believe these free market solutions would increase liberty and raise the overall morale of our people and result in a strong decrease in abortions. We as a free society must understand that any problems we face in society are most efficiently solved by free people persuing their own self-interests without the government invading in their lives.

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