06-18-2024, 02:46 PM
(06-18-2024, 01:31 PM)Dill Wrote: I am "painting it" according to the most recent 2024 Gallup Poll which shows that 54% of Americans identify as pro-choice and only 41% pro life. (the previously cited 55% was from a different poll). https://news.gallup.com/poll/244709/pro-choice-pro-life-2018-demographic-tables.aspx
Many people who identify as pro-life also think abortion should still be legal.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/14/opinion/focus-group-pro-life-supporters.html
Since the issue is whether Project 2025 signals a minority imposing its will on the majority, two questions:
1) Looks to me like Project 2025 is about criminalizing all abortion, not protecting some amalgam majority from "radicals." But can you offer links or some evidence of whom the "radicals" are, especially those who endorse killing a baby who survives a botched abortion? That sounds a bit like previous Sharia and CRT panics.
2) A majority of Americans also believe that medication abortion should be legal in their state.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/11/by-more-than-two-to-one-americans-say-medication-abortion-should-be-legal-in-their-state/
Regarding your "amalgam in the middle," how many do you suppose would go along with a national ban on distributing "Abortion pills" through the mail, as appears to be the intent announced on page 562 of chap 17, Project 2025?
Announcing a Campaign to Enforce the Criminal Prohibitions in 18 U.S. Code §§ 1461 and 1462 Against Providers and Distributors of Abortion Pills That Use the Mail. Federal law prohibits mailing “[e]very article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing which is advertised or described in a manner calculated to lead another to use or apply it for producing abortion.”75 Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, there is now no federal prohibition on the enforcement of this statute. The Department of Justice in the next conservative Administration should therefore announce its intent to enforce federal law against providers and distributors of such pills.
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-17.pdf
That's the problem with all or nothing positions, they allow for no compromise so your opposition is rather forced into an equally strong position. As pointed out the majority of people who are pro-choice support limits based on time from conception. I would even venture that some pro-life people would be in favor of such a compromise. This being the case, why do Dems fight so vigorously against any restrictions, even going to far as to not commit to third trimester elective abortion bans?
