My issue is the balance between the right of the State to dictate to people vs. the right of people in general, born or unborn.
To me while abortion is abhorrent, banning it outright is a bridge I don't want to cross. My issue is Roe is horrible law, and States should be able to decide themselves based on our Constitution. I personally wouldn't vote to ban abortion, but to limit elective abortions to a certain time period.
To me the balance over "elective" abortions is viability. If you can figure it out by then, you are "pot committed" as the poker term goes.
In general I agree with you regarding viability and so does Roe.
Roe is terrible law, it made up a right out of thin air, and did nothing to end the debate on the issue.
This is as ignorant as it is wrong.
Roe is the progeny of
Griswold and
Eisenstadt – codifying the fact that the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments acknowledge a right to privacy, prohibiting government from interfering in personal, private matters such as whether to have a child or not, incorporated to the states by the 14th Amendment.
Roe is sound, consistent case law limiting the authority of the state and protecting individual liberty.
Limiting government power was something conservatives once believed in – no longer the case the consequence of the authoritarian social right.
Exactly true.
But it does take Conservatives back to their anti-women roots- they don't believe women should be having sex unless it is for reproduction. Conservatives had big government make contraceptives illegal for women. Conservatives had big government make abortion illegal for women.
That is why todays Conservatives put the value of a 3 day old fetus ahead of the value of a 12 year old rape victim. It isn't about saving a life- they are willing to risk the life of the 13 year old rape victim- it is about controlling women, and their reproduction.
Thank you.
What these people want to do is monstrous in my opinion.
They want to force a rape or incest victim to give birth to a child who is the result of that brutal violence forced upon her.
The barbarian who brutalized the woman or child then has parental rights to all children that resulted from their brutality. Forcing that woman or child and the child that is the result of the brutality to have to have a relationship with the barbarian who brutalized them.
That child will have to grow up knowing how it was created and it will have to live with it until the day they die.
Then there's cases like what happened to a friend of mine. One day a private investigator showed up at his door asking about his dead mother and the child that was the result of her being raped she gave up for adoption. Apparently that child grew up to rape and murder his girlfriend's daughter.
His defense. He is the result of rape. He's not guilty because it's in his DNA.
My friend's mother had never told him and his sister about any of it. She died without telling them. My friend was shocked to find out all of this. He was dragged into the court case.
The far right radical extremists don't care what they do. They don't care about the people who are hurt by what they do. All they care about is themselves and forcing their way of life on our nation full of people who don't want to live that lifestyle.
Meanwhile countless lives are destroyed.
