06-26-2024, 04:56 AM
(06-26-2024, 01:53 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I've explained this before. Absolutely not. First, the idea that abortion was a constitutional right under the 14th's right to privacy was insanely tenuous. A more unkind way of putting it would be judicial activism. Secondly, making it a constitutional right meant it had absolutely no restrictions (unlike the 2nd amendment for some reason). The US was a far, far outlier in terms of abortion access, being far more permissive than any other Western style democracy. It's only real equivalent was China. A 12 week elective abortion limit would be completely in line with most of Europe.
https://www.epfweb.org/sites/default/files/2021-09/ABORT%20Atlas_EN%202021-v5.pdf
Be mad all you like, but Roe was a very radical decision on several levels. Safe, legal abortion access should be a cornerstone of a modern society. But near unfettered elective abortion is absolutely not in line with much of the Western world. You guys relied on a flawed decision for decades without codifying anything into law, blame Obama for that btw.
Didn’t ask if you supported the decision. You said you believed abortion should be legal up until viability outside the womb and after that for maternal or infant health. That is essentially the Roe level of protection. Democrats want to codify that.
And yeah, hindsight being 20-20, they should have already done that but they naively didn’t think it would be overturned by the same court that rendered the original decision. Having learned that lesson, that is why they want to pass laws covering same sex marriage and contraception
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