Yes, most countries have national abortion laws. We had a national abortion law that protected a woman's right to choose up until viability of the fetus. It made sense. A large majority of Americans agreed with it. There will be always be idiots who don't think abortion should be legal at any stage of pregnancy and the other idiots that think abortion should be legal up until birth but most of us normal people were good with Roe V Wade. What happened? |
I do wonder if traditional R's will sit out. In my reliably R part of the country, I think there are a lot of pro-business R's who understand he is not going to help their agenda. Conspicuous lack of Trump signs too among households who usually display their candidate preference loud and proud. |
Russia funded the hell out of right wing media. They set out to divide America from within and boy did they ever find fertile ground in the Republican Party. FTR no one has ever thought abortion should be legal up until birth. We’re just aware that there are very rare and terrible circumstances in which that needs to stay a tool in the doctor’s arsenal. A woman who doesn’t want to get pregnant generally gets not pregnant as soon as she possibly can, a woman who wants to have a baby will do whatever she can to do that, but sometimes it doesn’t work out. |
Yes, this is why under RvW there were allowable exception cases for abortion to be permitted past the point of fetus viability. Not rocket science. Most of us agreed with the law. It made sense. |
Yes, you absolutely are. Because you have to lie. And because more women ARE dying because of the restrictions in Texas. I know Trumpsters hate Google because that’s where facts live. |
No, Democrats want the decision to be between a woman and her doctor, not the government. The actual reality of a third trimester abortion - which is a very small percentage of abortions as a whole - is a woman who likely had a very wanted pregnancy and found out devastating news that there are significant fetal abnormalities or their life is at risk. And the decision on how to approach this should be solely between the woman/couple and the doctor. |
Yes, and with appropriate abortion laws, that choice between a woman and her doctor can be protected due to it be a special exception case. We used to have these sensible laws that most agreed with. They went away. |
I actually have a best friend who chose to have a baby with a fatal genetic disease over having an abortion. Her baby lived two days. She is a Democrat. She changed my mind on this issue with her actions. |
So you agree with codifying Roe v. Wade? What people do not think through is how nuance is lost depending on how the laws are written. For example, you agree that abortion should be allowed to save the life of the mother. At what point is this allowed? If there is a complication that may endanger the life of the mother, but the mother is currently medically stable, can you get an abortion in that case? Or (as is being seen now) does there have to be an IMMINENT risk of death, and prior to that doctors cannot intervene due to worry about getting sued? What if there is a fetal abnormality that is incompatible with life, but they would theoretically be able to survive days outside the womb? Weeks? What is the line? |
Yes, I'd be fine with codifying Roe. Life was normal and I never heard anyone complain about abortion laws other than the evangelical idiots back when Roe V Wade was in effect. |
Most abortions are elective and not performed for any health reason. |
IT WENT AWAY BECAUSE OF TRUMP We HAD sensible, popular abortion laws. Roe v Wade was sensible and popular. Now women are dying because doctors can't treat them. Trump did this. |
Roe no longer exist so there is nothing to codify and therefore it's a moot point |
Harris and Walz have both said they want to codify Roe. The "abortion should be between a woman and her doctor" is because the right insists on constantly portraying this narrative that women are waking up 8 or 9 months pregnant going "welp, changed my mind" or that people are killing babies after they are born which are just lies that show how the right views women.
0% chance Trump codifies Roe. He has consistently backed its overturn by saying "everyone wanted it to go back to the states" (obviously a lie). |
Difficult to codify laws that no longer exist |