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Today’s decision delivers the issue back to the political process, where it always should have been. I am basically pro choice. I also recognize that someone isn’t crazy, or a bigot or a woman hater, if they really feel like aborting a fetus (particularly one that is viable, can feel pain, etc.) is murder or something close to it. It’s a complicated issue. There is going to have to be a compromise that leaves both sides unhappy. And the debate will continue, people will make arguments, mobilize votes. That’s what’s supposed to happen on hotly contested policy questions in a democracy. [/quote]

Individual health care decisions should never have been a part of the political process. Can you imagine if we needed states to decide if someone should have an appendix removed? Are there states regulating if we should or shouldn’t treat lung cancer? No! Even when we are all born with an appendix (so higher being created that appendix if that’s your belief) or lung cancer from smoking was self inflicted…we don’t look to the politicians and the public to decide IF that person should get the procedure their medical team and they have decided on.[/quote]

“Individual health decisions” are part of the political process all the time.

Drug policy. 
Access to care. 
Access to prescriptions. 
Right to suicide, assisted or otherwise. 
Right to harvest or purchase organs.

On and on and on.

We live in a society that has laws. Some of those laws relate directly to “individual health” and bodily autonomy. And there are many things that as a society we have decided should not be permitted. You can’t shoot a bunch of heroin and buy a homeless woman’s kidney, even in the “privacy” of your own home. [/quote]

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