The entire Republican idea is "every life is meaningful, until it is born then we do not give a shit."
The entire Democrat idea is "Assert my opinion as fact so that I don't have to deal with the topic."
Hold your breath waiting for ANYONE to get defensive about not having your approval, moron.
To the contrary, I find your disapproval boosts my self esteem and general happiness.
I don't know what's more breathtaking: your unintentional irony or your massive tone-deafness and hypocrisy.
Probably both in equal measure, I am a balanced guy like that.
Still the US abortion debate, as I outlined is a polarised irrational mess, both sides.
But then most American political discourse is these days.
And whose fault is that? I won't say there are some dogmatic slogan-shouters on the pro-life side, but I'll be damned if I've ever seen anything BUT that from the pro-aborts. Even the ones who try to play at being calm and rational are still parroting talking points with their fingers in their ears.
And while we're on the subject, it's the pro-aborts that are utterly and completely unwilling to compromise on the subject. They won't even countenance the "infringement" of safety regulations on abortion clinics that are completely standard in any other medical facility you care to name. Hell, as far as I can tell, they refuse to consider the same level of safety regulations that are standard in tattoo parlors.
I agree the Pro Choice people can be extremely irrational, for instance I think their argument a conceived life is not a life until we say it is one is not only irrational but has other dubious moral side effects.
Just admit it is a life but some time taking a life is allowed for the greater good.
But the Pro Life people can be just as irrational, even on rare occasion terrorism and murder.
Excuse me, but trying to equate the entire pro-life side of the debate with a handful of rare lunatics is also irrational, not to mention dishonest. Would you consider it reasonable for me to say, "Bernie Sanders supporters are irrational, even on rare occasions murder and assassination" just because one Sanders-supporting nutjob decided to shoot him some Congressmembers?
There is a lot of irrational discourse writ large on the Pro Life side too, you cannot see it because your flag is planted squarely on that side.
I approach the issue not committed to either side but rather social utility balanced by ethics.
There are no easy answers on this as banning it will not end it but only see it conducted in worse conditions, if history be our guide yet making it too easy or not admitting it is a grave decision also probably increases the number of abortions.
What increases abortions is the following:
Allowing insurance to not cover birth control.
Not teaching factual sex education.
Not having proper medical facilities with birth control available.
Continuing to allow men to walk away from their own flesh and blood.
Not providing proper education and opportunities.
Not providing paid pregnancy leave. Or any pregnancy leave time.
Not providing job security for pregnant women so they know they will have a job to go back to if they take time off for the child.
Not providing proper health care.
Not providing reliable and good child care.
Not raising the minimum wage to make sure everyone working has a living wage.
Rape and giving the barbaric man who raped her parental rights to any pregnancy they cause by that sick and barbaric crime.
That's just a short list of the reasons why abortion is necessary.
I sure would like to know the reason why women stop having their constitutional right to privacy with their bodies stopped because she became pregnant.
I would like to know why women's HIPAA rights get to be thrown out the window and violated because she got pregnant.
I would like to know where it says in the constitution that anyone has the right to tell women how to live their lives and what to do with their own bodies.