The "Red, White & Blue Papers" Scott Keller in a Series, on the Issues

This paper discusses Abortion

A Personal Statement by Scott Keller:

Abortion is a multi-faceted issue.  Many factors go into its cause, many consequences result from it, many options are not made available to women.  I believe that many of the women who are pro-choice would not be happy to know that their choices are being influenced by greed – namely those who profit from performing abortions.

If economic factors are causing women to choose the abortion option, then let's fix the economic factors.  If we take a new viewpoint on what a child is, then perhaps how we treat the child will be different. 

A child is a full-potential addition to the human race.  He or she will have ideas, skills, abilities of his/her own.  He or she will possibly make discoveries, and make positive contributions to humanity of his/her own.  Who knows what benefit society will derive from the existence of each child?  We should be devoting much more innovative focus on coming up with ways to support our newly-created children, and to preserve their lives even in the pregnancy months, while at the same time giving women the option of opting out of raising the child if she's not prepared to do so.

We must also stop the tendency among some people to condemn a woman for getting pregnant.  It is not shameful, but rather a beautiful thing, a human thing.  If a woman is raped, the shame is on the man who did the raping, but otherwise if a man and woman are drawn together, then it's not a bad thing.  It's preferable if it's by choice, of course, with the intent to have a family and raise children together, but as Hilary Clinton once wrote about, the entire village has a stake in the outcome and should do its best to support the children.

Also there should not be a cost associated with raising children.  It's a travesty that families are burdened with such costs when all of humanity benefits from the existence of this new life. As a proponent of new and innovative economic models, I'm in favor of a system whereby neither the man nor the woman has to “pay” for the child.  Those who will nurture the child should be encouraged to be in the child's life. Those who will detract from the child should not be allowed to.  Many more options should be available to enable families to be at peace, without undue burdens.

This is a greed-based, profit-chasing-based economic model that we have which creates an environment that is counter-intuitive.  It is against humanity's future in that it does not give children equally awesome opportunity.  A child doesn't choose the parents or the environment to which he/she is born and no child should be made to suffer because of being conceived under inconvenient circumstances or to people not yet mature enough or psychologically compatible enough to be loving parents or because of the financial situation of those parents.

Parents should have rights in the raising of their kids, but not to the point of limiting the future of those children or preventing the children from learning to their fullest potential and rising to their fullest potential in all areas.  I think we shouldn't be allowing personal pride to interfere with child development.  The future of humanity is vitally linked to this premise.

Health care should be free and there are ways of making it so.

Education should be fully customized, free, mastery-based rather than time-based, full-potential based rather than common denominator-based, and geared towards helping students go beyond their teachers, rather than just having an attempted transfer knowledge.

Lastly, money needs to be removed as a limit as well.

"MAKE IT CHANGE!"

STK 07/31/2011

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