Says the cheerleaders of late term abortions
Like the Fairfax county thrice deported sexual predator?
Abortion always strikes me as an issue that CAN be reasonably compromised on a level where people from all over the issue CAN find agreement.
BUT - it is always crushed because of the extremes on each end - one end wants it eliminated, gone, illegal from the moment of conception, the other wants it legal even to the barbaric point of birth to EVEN A SHORT TIME **AFTER** birth.
Once again - as much as the left wants us to be more like Europe - European nations have LONG AGO settled a reasonable compromise on the issue, but that their restrictions would be anathema to the left, here. The entire Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade was predicated by the whole Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, where the law was to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. This is fairly close to where it is all over Europe - which is much more accomodating than most of the REST of the world.
And this would be - on request. As in, no actual REASON. Exceptions for: life of the mother, rape and incest are all over the place, but I always think that banning abortion on request after 15-18 weeks is perfectly acceptable, since by that time, most abortions fall well before that time. Exceptions for life of the mother should always be acceptable, even to die-hard right to lifers.
Me? I don't think they should happen at all. The decision on whether or not to have a baby ought to come well before the baby is conceived. We have far too many because people will NOT use precautions. But it's going to happen, and people WILL abort them, no matter how sacred a right to lifer declares, and how well intentioned the proposals to adopt are - they WILL HAPPEN. I do feel it's tragic that so many are ended, when so very many couples long for a child and can't have one. But people will terminate pregnancies, so - establish laws that are fair and make sense.