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Region: Right to Life
Happy to answer any questions, and happy to have someone stop by who is interested in listening. If you have anything else you want to ask about, feel free!
1. I wrote a brief bit on this a little while ago, I can explain it in a little more length if you are interested, but my stance on exceptions is that there should be no exceptions for abortion, defined as the intentional killing of the child, but that a procedure that results in the death of the child if attempting to save the mother's life should not be considered abortion, as both would be saved if it were possible with our current medical technology. It's a pedantic difference but an important one, but in practice it's functionally a sole exception for the life of the mother.
2. I oppose the death penalty and basically all war (I'm of the mind that a truly 'just' war is functionally impossible in the modern age and only really exists in theory), euthanasia depends heavily on context, I'm generally open to end-of-life decisions being made by the individual ('shut off the machines' sort of thing), but (as there is some issue with in the Netherlands and elsewhere), the letter of the law needs to be carefully tailored to avoid doctors making decisions to end their patients' lives even if the patient wishes to live.
3. I consider human rights to be an important modern day issue, applied to both women and men. One can certainly focus on areas in which women receive unequal treatment by governments, laws in most of the Middle East, for example, but I do not think a woman should have any special rights not also afforded to men, and vice-versa.
4. Depends on the program. The answer is yes that I support more programs to prevent abortion, but not necessarily every program. I think cracking down on deadbeat fathers who run out on the mother of their child, for example, would be of great help in reducing abortions when would-be single mothers think themselves unable to care for the child, but that's not generally what is thought of when referencing such programs. I'd be more in favor of that sort of thing, and efforts to push back against hookup culture, than something like graphic sexual teachings in school for prepubescent children, or poorly-designed welfare programs that have proven more effective in dramatically increasing the single motherhood rate than reducing poverty.
5. Not specifically. I consider murder wrong in general from a religious perspective, but almost everyone tends to oppose that for one reason or another, religious or secular. Applying it to children in the womb is based off the science that identifies them as a human being with a unique DNA rather than religious teaching.
Tudor Azarath, New Kiwis, Caterama, and West bethel