08-19-2023, 06:43 PM
(08-18-2023, 12:33 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: That's a rather facile analogy. Let me ask you this, a man murders a woman who is 8 months pregnant. Do you really think he didn't take two lives with his actions?
Sadly, it's not. I listen to Senate and House hearings in the background at work. The standard abortion tactic from the GOP is to ask the person appearing before the committee whether they support elective abortion in the last trimester. The response they get, every single time, is that's a discussion to be had between a woman and her doctor/medical professional. Of course, it's a clear dodge, as for ideologues they cannot allow any crack in the armor. If you won't say you oppose elective abortion in the last trimester then you are saying you support it.
We feel the same way. Sadly, there are some, on both extremes, who don't. Albeit in differing ways.
I'd be pretty okay with legislation that meets in the middle. No third trimester other than saving the life of the mother or product of rape/incest.
Rhetoric will never let that kind of outcome exist.
