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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So much truth here.  Europe’s countries all have different limits on abortion - just as we will if the states are given the right to legislate this issue.  Europe has managed to let their voters make the decision.

In Europe, abortion is legal in most countries, with limits that are more strict than ours, as a result of DEMOCRATIC CHOICE.

“Note that European abortion policy has mostly ended up where opinion polls suggest most Americans would prefer to be: with abortion legal in the first trimester but with more restrictions later, and with some checks such as a waiting period or parental notification for minors. The main abortion lesson from Europe is that voters can be trusted with such an important issue.

If the U.S. Supreme Court rules on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization as last week’s leak suggests, this new abortion politics will be an adjustment for partisans—on both sides—accustomed to haranguing 100 Senators over Supreme Court nominations rather than persuading millions of voters. But what a relief if America can look forward one day to the relative political peace Europe enjoys on this contentious moral question.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-abortion-law-roe-v-wade-supreme-court-european-union-leak-alito-dobbs-pro-life-choice-civil-womens-rights-11651757568[/quote]

Fascinating that European healthcare is a reasonable utopia on the one healthcare issue that conservatives care about, but is otherwise a socialist nightmare.

And PS - what you just described is roughly the framework of Roe/Casey. Even in the US, 90% of abortions occur in the first trimester and half of those are medication, as opposed to surgical abortion. Since the majority of Americans poll as in favor of Roe I think you'd find vast support for the above framework for abortion rights, especially if we also adopted common sense measures like making birth control free and easily accessible, which would, you know, cut down the number of unwanted pregnancies.

But that's not what's going on and no amount of WSJ editorials trying to spin it as such will make it so.[/quote]

+100. I can’t even with this disingenuous crap anymore. If you want European abortion regulations to be your model, adopt European healthcare guarantees. That’s a compromise I could get behind. But it wasn’t five minutes ago you were ranting how Obamacare was socialism because…. Reasons? [/quote]

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