I've been a pro-choice liberal Democrat since the sixties. But I must admit, I'm rapidly losing faith in the rationality of all sides of the abortion debate. The arguments presented by _both sides_ are not always "anti-science", but they are typically anti-reason, which is really an even bigger problem.
The Republicans say that if a family doesn't want a child so much that they want to kill that baby, the government should force them to become parents. By this logic, if I walk in to the Child Protective Services office and say I'm thinking about killing my children, the state should require me to have more children.
The Democrats refuse to ever say that what abortion really is in most (not all) cases is a baby killing service we provide to those too lazy to use contraception, and that we've been rationalizing this practice for decades by calling it "choice". And then we point the finger at everybody else as if we Dems had nothing to do with the creation of this controversy.
Ignoring the science is bad, ignoring reason is even worse. The sad irony is that it is in such ignoring that both sides of the debate are united.
I think you've got a typo.
"the justices stated that access to abortion would (not) be determined by the states."
I've been a pro-choice liberal Democrat since the sixties. But I must admit, I'm rapidly losing faith in the rationality of all sides of the abortion debate. The arguments presented by _both sides_ are not always "anti-science", but they are typically anti-reason, which is really an even bigger problem.
The Republicans say that if a family doesn't want a child so much that they want to kill that baby, the government should force them to become parents. By this logic, if I walk in to the Child Protective Services office and say I'm thinking about killing my children, the state should require me to have more children.
The Democrats refuse to ever say that what abortion really is in most (not all) cases is a baby killing service we provide to those too lazy to use contraception, and that we've been rationalizing this practice for decades by calling it "choice". And then we point the finger at everybody else as if we Dems had nothing to do with the creation of this controversy.
Ignoring the science is bad, ignoring reason is even worse. The sad irony is that it is in such ignoring that both sides of the debate are united.
https://www.tannytalk.com/p/aborting-the-abortion-debate