Our founding fathers understood the dangers of mob rule. You seem to kind of acknowledge them. Our system of government prevents us from constantly making major legislative changes to our daily lives every whim the slim majority has.FakeAndyStuart wrote: ↑Sat Jun 25, 2022 8:31 am1) True, the feds can codify the whole thing. EXCEPT we live in a country where 21% of the population controls 40% of the Senate, which is enough to stop anything a majority wants to accomplish. Perhaps that will be a good thing in the future, when 40 senators can stop the new majority from limiting voting rights, etc. But overall, the current Congressional model is nothing happens. (Face it, the bi-partisan "gun" bill is a whole bunch of nothing.)
You are more likely to find common ground with the average pro-life voter than pro-choice voter with that stance. Most in the pro-choice movement want abortions on demand for anybody who wants them, and most not only don't have a problem with, but FULLY SUPPORT using abortions as after-the-fact birth control.FakeAndyStuart wrote: ↑Sat Jun 25, 2022 8:31 am2) I believe that abortion should be safe, legal and very rare.
I don't know how you get there legislatively. Either abortions are legal for anybody who wants them without restriction, OR you have restrictions (numerous ones if you want them to be "very rare"), which I assume you wold classify as politicians "making medical decisions."FakeAndyStuart wrote: ↑Sat Jun 25, 2022 8:31 amI'm open to different approaches and methods to get there. But I don't want politicians making medical decisions.
Me personally, I don't think there IS a legislative solution, much like with the gun violence problem we have in this country. The large number of abortions in this country is largely a cultural problem without a legislative solution.
It's not my job to raise somebody else's child. Again - cultural problem. People who aren't ready or able to raise children shouldn't be engaging in the acts that leads to them having children in the first place. We always talk in the gun control debate about trying to "get to the root of the problem," the root which isn't easily determined. In the abortion discussion, the root of the problem is quite clear as pregnancies literally 99% of the time occur because of a very specific voluntary action.FakeAndyStuart wrote: ↑Sat Jun 25, 2022 8:31 amAND until you are ready to save baby's lives AFTER they are born (health care, food assistance, child care for single moms who have to work to pay to raise the child etc.) your comments and efforts are duplicitous.