I encourage the Senators to vote nay on this motion and to take afleitch's comments to heart. If you work at it, a comprehensive abortion reform plan may be possible.
I was planning on saving my sex education and birth control program as a part of my legislative agenda.....but I suppose you and afleitch are right. This would be an opportunity to combine both efforts.
I need to think about an amendment for a little while.
NAY on the motion to table.
I was simply raising the concept of a wider ranging sex education programme as one of the potential
barriers to abortion reform. I can see the necessity to limit abortion as much as possible, but only in exchange for the most liberal sex education program feasable. There are two potential roadblocks to this;
1. Is this a federal issue? Should we make it one?
2. Would those who wish to outlaw abortion be willing to compromise by a. Keeping it legal but rare and b. Supporting a massive extension of sex education and cheap (possibly free) contraception?
I would be in favour of a liberalisation of sex education in ways that would make a whore blush
in exchange for a tougher limit to abortion.
That's the 'deal' But can it be done?
