Democratic Party platform - abortion

I was reading the Democratic Party platform document online yesterday. While there was a lot of stuff in it that sounded good, there were a few things that made me pause and wonder. The most disturbing ones of those to me was in their statement on abortion. I am not making an argument for or against abortion in this post. I just had to say something about this statement. The statement from the platform is this: we believe in a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of their ability to pay. Now, I'm not going to speak one way or another on the first part of this statement, but I have a lot to say about the second part. In case you are confused, I'm talking about the "regardless of their ability to pay" part of this statement. So, this is what I'm hearing when I read that. We think that a woman should be able to choose an abortion and that it should be safe and legal (ok, I'm with ya so far, I can see that point whether I'm inclined to agree with it or not), but we also think that a woman has the right to an abortion even if she can't afford to pay for it. Ok, you've lost me now. This seems like a ridiculous statement on its face. So you are saying that if someone goes out and gets pregnant, but has no insurance and can't afford to pay for an abortion that the government should pay for it for her. This I can't agree with. This would mean that you'd be asking people to pay for abortions using their tax dollars and since a large portion of American taxpayers are opposed to abortion, this violates their freedom to choose because it forces them to pay for someone else's abortion. So, I am not for an abortion regardless of ability to pay. In addition, I was raised to take responsibility for my actions. This means to me, in this case, that if I'm responsible enough to have sex, then I should be responsible enough to accept the consequences of my actions. If you can't afford an abortion then you certainly can't afford a child and therefore, you shouldn't be having sex. Maybe this is naive of me, but what happens if this statement were enacted into law? First off, as mentioned above, millions of people who oppose abortion would now have to spend their tax dollars specifically for abortions, but that isn't even the worse part of this. It seems to me that if this became law, you aren't really helping people out with their abortions so much as removing the only incentive to not get pregnant in the first place. After all, the government gives a lot of money to unwed mothers, so there isn't a lot of incentive not to get pregnant as it it, but people who don't want children yet are still likely to avoid pregnancy if they can't afford the abortion. This law removes that and therefore, there is no incentive to not get pregnant because the incentive is replaced with this attitude: Oh, I can have sex, if I get pregnant the government will pay for the abortion. Is this really the message you want to send the American people? Don't be responsible with your lives because when you screw up, we, the government will take care of you. Perhaps it is the message you want to send. If so, do you really think that this kind of attitude will help make abortion safe, legal and rare? I have news for you, enacting legislation that would do this would make abortion safe, legal and common.