She is the one who has to deal with it, she is the one who takes the risks, the job loss, the education loss, the loss of giving up a child after birth and deals with it all. An embryo has no conception, no feeling, nothing but a potential to be born and become. It's not meant to sound cold and callous, but when a fertilized egg is considered as important in terms of rights as the body it may grow in, or the child who is born - then I see something wrong with that.
"She is the one who has to deal with it, she is the one who takes the risks, the job loss, the education loss, the loss of giving up a child after birth and deals with it all"
Knowing all that, why isn't she on BC? Why doesn't she require her partner to use a condom? Or why doesn't she take a pregnancy test and if positive take the morning after pill? It's hard to feel bad for a woman who has all these options and avails herself of none of them. If we don't force people to deal with the consequences of their words and actions then there's no deterrence to further bad decisions. It's not the baby's fault, right? Why does the baby have to die because the parents were irresponsible?
For too many people on the Left, they see a fertilized egg as basically the same as a pimple, with no rights at all. And I see something wrong with that. I know you don't like the "pimple" reference, but the Left is willing to end the life of any unborn baby from conception all the way to point of birth. With no restrictions at all, which is virtually the same thing as removing a pimple. According to the Left, and unborn baby has no more of a right to life than a pimple, right?
BUT - we live in a society where compromises are necessary, especially when we cannot agree on much of anything regarding a specific issue like abortion. So, having said all that, people are going to have to find a way to deal with the problem. IMHO, the Roe v Wade decision by the 1973 SC has insufficient basis in the Constitution to be declared by 9 unelected people to be a constitutional right, and therefore should be overturned. Which means either the US Congress crafts a bipartisan abortion bill or the issue falls to the individual states to write their own abortion laws. Which is the way it oughta be in the 1st place, our elected state reps should legislate the issue and if the voters don't like it then they can replace the politicians if the legislation is not struck down in a court somewhere.
I believe the Senate is working on a bipartisan abortion bill, which I think would survive any legal challenges depending on what they eventually do. But whether they can do it remains to be seen because too many people on both sides don't want to compromise. Some people want no abortions at all while others want abortions to be legal right up to birth. Are there enough people in the middle that could reach some kind of deal? Dunno. Kinda doubt it.
Personally, I believe contraceptives should be legal and free. As should pregnancy tests and morning after pills, which I think can end a pregnancy within the 1st 10 weeks or so. But then things get sticky, once an unborn baby has a beating heart (6 weeks) it's tough to convince somebody like me that it's okay to terminate that life. It looks like we'll end up with many states banning abortions altogether while others allow it up to birth. And the rest with some varying restrictions. IOW, almost nobody is going to be happy about how things end up. Maybe they never will.
