Crixus
Gold Member
Not really. Most Americans support the right to choose as its defined, or was back in the day. America could accept a law legalizing abortion as its defined, but you political cultist like having it as an issue on a message board so you can swap barbs and get little emoji’s saying how cool you are.
Um, no, not really.
Here's the thing... if you asked most Americans if they think abortion should be used as contraception, they'd have reservations, but maybe grudingly allow it. That's really what we are talking about when we talk about 98% of abortions, performed on non-viable, consensual conceived fetuses as a form of birth control.
But we aren't discussing cases, we are discussing law and how to apply it.
So the pro-life person will talk about the late abortion fetus that makes up 1% of abortions performed, and the pro-choicer will talk about the fetus that happens because of rape or incest, which is also about 1% of abortions performed.
That is where the discussion is taking place, but if you allow for these fringes, the whole premise falls apart. If you are arguing that, yeah, I'm pro-life, but I can totally see aborting a rape-fetus... then you are on thin ice rhetorically. If you are pro-choice but want to ban abortion in the third trimester... then why not the second or when a heartbeat starts or when God gives a baby a soul?
This isn't a simple question, which is why I go to the Pro-reality position. A woman who doesn't want to be pregnant will find a way to not be pregnant.
Regardless of how i feel about abortion personally or your reasons for wanting one, a practical matter is either you are going to have unenforceable laws like we had pre-1973 or in the Philippines, or we are going to have to have a pretty draconian system that makes "A Handmaid's Tale" look like weak sauce.
This here,
a·bor·tion
/əˈbôrSH(ə)n/
noun
- 1.
the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy.
"concerns such as abortion and euthanasia"
synonyms: termination, miscarriage;
rarefeticide
"she had an abortion"
That’s what most Americans can grudgingly support. Even I can. Abortions as a form of contraception is murder and woman who use abortions as such are murderers and should have to agree to be sterilized as a condition of receiving such. But that’s my opinion. My opinion aside, congress should be forced to make a bill. They all agree abortion isn’t going anywhere, so make a law. Then no one has to worry about who a president puts on the SCOTUS. Why don’t they do this? Because then they would have to go to Washington and work. No one on this board is going to be convinced one way or the other. So why go round and round. You believe what you do ind I believe what I do. The only solution is a law.