06-28-2022, 07:05 AM
(06-27-2022, 05:45 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: The interesting question is would pro-choice people accept a federal law legalizing abortion, but only in the first trimester? Public support for abortion really drops off the cliff after the first trimester.
Personally speaking, I wouldn't. But that's mostly because I don't believe that it is something that should be legislated. It's a medical procedure where the circumstances of each situation is so individual that it is far too detailed for any sort of legislative rulemaking. There is no law that could be passed that would cover all of the variables needed to be an effective policy. In addition, abortion prohibitions are ineffective. We need to be educating our children and making family planning resources more readily accessible. Those are things that have been proven to actually reduce abortion rates, so my preference for evidence based policy also leads me to the idea of these proactive measures and not a prohibition on abortion.
This is all just speaking in terms of statutory and budgetary law, mind you. Constitutionally I still don't consider the unborn as persons with rights at any point until birth. But that's just the third leg of my position and admittedly my more extreme one.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
