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b_b  ·  1374 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What if the Supreme Court Rules on Abortion and the Country Shrugs?

What if I said this: "Setting a voting age is easy. You just pick the time when people can weigh evidence and decide for themselves." Now iterate that with literally anything that has a minimum age requirement. Nonsense. At some point we just make a compromise. It's of course difficult to compromise when some people literally think that what you're doing is an act of murder. However, I don't think that that's a large percentage even of the people who are self-identified pro-lifers. KB linked to a Gallup poll elsewhere that put the number at 6% of the overall population. Probably a similar number thinks that you should be able to abort a baby anytime for any reason. The rest of us are in the middle somewhere and labels are not helpful, as they ascribe to individuals beliefs that they do not necessarily hold. That goes for "pro-life" and "pro-choice". It's a false distinction, because basically everybody agrees that there's a few months' worth of grey area during gestation. Sadly, "pro-life" has become a litmus test for a position that almost nobody believes in. But the problem is that "pro-choice" has become a labeled to be rebelled against by a lot of conservatives who may not necessarily think that abortion is always wrong, but they just don't want to be seen as moral relativists or something (in-group phenomenon, maybe???). I'd personally love to see a truce called where we all agree that you can get an abortion until X time (sometime after everyone has had a good enough chance to know they're pregnant, but long before any reasonable chance of autonomous life) and then it's a flat "no" unless a life threatening condition arises for mother or fetus. I think that's the only way we ever end this debate. I would, however, be in favor of very late term abortions for any amoral politician who uses this as a wedge issue (e.g. Fuckhead-in-Chief).





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