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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing wrong with leaving the legality of abortion to individual states.[/quote]

Yes, there is.  States are not allowed to decide about constitutionally protected rights.  That's why we have a federal government and are not a confederacy.  [/quote]

Roe v Wade was a seriously flawed decision which needs to be modified or reversed.[/quote]

Roe v Wade was flawed. The right to privacy was a made up thing at the time.  But it is part of a line of a hugely important cases to the American pUblic.  Right to access birth control, right to marry outside your race, right to engage in homosexual behavior, right to educate your children as you prefer (religious schooling), right to end medical “heroic measures”,  right to compose your family as you see fit (it the context of laws banning multiple generations from living together”— these were all right to privacy cases.

If you get rid of the right to privacy, all these cases fall.  Some, like being allowed to send kids to private or religious schools, conservative like. [/quote]

The difference is that in the case of abortion, the rights of an unborn child is subjugated to the wishes of the woman carrying the child. Even Roe when it was decided was predicated on the viability of the fetus outside of the mother's womb which is why the abortions in the third semester was constrained. With medical advances that viability has become possible at an even earlier point in the pregnancy.

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The survival of very preterm infants has improved substantially in the past two decades, such that the gestational age at which at least half of very preterm infants survive has decreased to 23 weeks. [/quote]

Are you as a taxpayer willing to shell out the million plus dollars it takes to grow a 23 week fetus into a baby?  A local family with health insurance is claiming their early baby with no health problems other than those caused by expelling him early (lungs, brain, heart) will cost over a million dollars before he comes home.    They are not viable without  costly treatment.  This poor child will be delayed and blind.   I wonder if any GOP family will adopt him when his father leaves and his mother is unable to support him. [/quote]

We already do this. We already shell out millions for people and families on Medicaid to receive medical care.[/quote]

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