In 1975 Germany nixed legalizing abortion based on recognition of the slippery slope they had previously descended.
In 1972, we legalized it.
I think we can start undoing some of this escalation
by agreeing that the point of Roe V Wade was to get rid of the "criminalization"
aspect of the law "without due process" that got the law struck down as unconstitutional.
I'm sorry, but WHY do I have to agree to that? It's not true, so I can only assume I'm being importuned to agree with it as a way of giving a measure of respect to pro-abortionists by pretending their attitudes and behavior haven't been utterly egregious.
Ain't gonna happen.
There needs to be a consensus before any laws can be passed
to replace what was ruled out.
That is also not going to happen. Know why? Because pro-abortionists don't WANT a consensus. They don't want the people having any say about this at all. That's why they do these end-runs around written law in the courts: as a way of keeping the peasant from interfering in what the leftist elites have already decided is best for them. We already HAD a consensus, comprised of state laws duly and legally passed by either the people themselves, or their elected representatives, and
Roe v. Wade tossed that consensus in the crapper in favor of Justice Blackmun's personal frigging opinion.
I firmly believe that one of the reasons that abortion remains such a contentious hot-button issue is because it was imposed on the people by
fiat and taken competely out of their hands. If it had been brought about by any sort of vote, the debate would still exist, but it would be a lot calmer.
The problem remains on how NOT to target, burden, criminalize or penalize "women more than men" who are equally responsible for the pregnancy in question, if not the men being more responsible in cases of rape/incest or other coercion/abuse situations.
Nope. The problem remains a core group of elitists who are going to remake the world in their image, come hell or high water, will of the people be damned. If that core group is ever moved out of the way so that abortion law can start to reflect the will of the people, THEN the problem will be how to do it. And by the way, the idea that abortion law is going to criminalize the women is a canard propagated by the pro-abortionists, insofar as that was not the case before
Roe v. Wade, and there is therefore no reason to believe it would be the case now. THEY are the ones who say that if we overturn
Roe, that means we MUST penalize women, and so how are you going to punish those women? It's a debate-killing line, and nothing more.
Could stronger laws be written holding the men responsible for rape and sexual abuse?
The issue of abortion itself has been totally clouded by this other issue
that has never seriously been addressed! If you resolve that issue first,
the other issues (including abortion itself) could be more clearly addressed without all the
impossible emotional and political conflict over woman's rights getting in the way.
What makes you think the laws for rape and sexual abuse aren't strong enough? The problem with these laws
vis a vis abortion isn't their strength or lack thereof, it's the fact that they're being circumvented and not enforced.
You haven't really listed any "issues" that need to be resolved. All I've seen is a lot of pro-abort propaganda that you've swallowed hook, line, and sinker as gospel truth.