Can a liberal at least admit that a bortion as a form of birth control is at least morally questionable? you're prepared to kill your own child because it's inconvenient to you. I'm not talking about rape, or to save the life of the mother, or even horrible birth defects. I'm talking just about abortion as a form of birth control.
It would entirely depend at what point in the pregnancy you are talking about, doesn't it?
At the point that most abortions are performed, the fetus is the size of a kidney bean and looks like a cocktail shrimp. It's sort of silly to call it a "baby" at that point.
Obviously, it's minor surgery, and something most people should avoid.
But here's why I don't take the moralizations of the right wing seriously on this issue anymore. (I used to, and fairly recently.)
In France, abortion is not only legal, but the government pays for them, no questions asked. Yet French women have abortions at half the rate of American women. Why? Stronger sex education, paid family and medical leave, strong protections for women who go on maternity leave to get their jobs back.
Meanwhile, in the Phillippines, abortion is against the law in most cases. Yet Filipana women have 500-800K abortions a year, a greater abortion rate than in the United States.
Now, if the right was serious about reducing the number of abortions, they'd want us to be more like France and less like the Philippines. But that's not the position you all take.
