06-18-2024, 03:39 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
Most (66%) support a three month limit for abortions, which is a vast majority of abortions. I believe that is a reasonable line to draw.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/26/1171863775/poll-americans-want-abortion-restrictions-but-not-as-far-as-red-states-are-going
The issue many have is with the far left radicals who want no limit on abortions and will not answer questions directly when ask regarding such, as they know howfar that is off the reservation.
1. It is currently up to the state. I support abortions up to a point, as most do, in accordance with where they likely think it is more a baby than a clump of cells.
2. I am not against abortion. I am against the insane idea that full term abortion should be legal, or legal under all circumstance, which is a vast minority, or at least it should be.
Banning abortion pills? Depends on the access, assessment, and potential damage done by sending the pills out versus not doing so. I have not read up on the pill and potential side effects, so I will hold back from putting an opinion out on that, as I am not educated on the medicine and overall effects.
