02-22-2024, 01:30 PM
(02-22-2024, 01:06 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I gotta think Alabama and Northern California (despite its beauty) are two places I would never want to live. I get you can file some sort of lawsuit if a place destroys your embryos, it’s like anything else, but wrongful death? And possible criminal charges. That’s insane.
It's an interesting topic because, as Bel recently put it, there's no scientific standard you can set for when a fertilized egg becomes a human. If you go the extreme then the moment an egg is fertilized it is a human being with all attendant rights. I suppose you could go even further and state that even sperm and the egg are human, but that would make women a monthly murderer and men, well, you get it. The other end of the spectrum is those who would refuse to outlaw an elective abortion just days before delivery, essentially the baby is not a actual human until it exits the mother's body. I think the vast majority of people fall somewhere in the middle of that range, across a spectrum of course.
I think a lot of people don't realize that under the Roe decision the US had abortion laws far more permissive than the rest of Western society, with only China being on the same level. Odd bedfellows indeed. Now that this is the standard for many on the left they see any restrictions beyond that previous standard to be unacceptable. I think a law more in line with the rest of the west, elective abortions in the first trimester range and after that only for solid medical reasons would probably satisfy 50-60% of the populace. Until we can get the moderates on this issue to solidify around this type of law we're going to get more of these extremes, and extremes don't do any of us any good in the long term.
