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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
It’s weird that suggestions the stage of pregnancy should be taken into account when crafting abortion policy is being painted as some kind of misogynist, conservative agenda when it’s an opinion shared by the great majority of American women.
68 per cent of American women say abortion should be legal in some cases and illegal in others (21 per cent believe it should be legal in all cases and 9 per cent that it should be illegal in all cases). Of those, only 15 per cent say term should have no bearing on legality.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion...on-views_0_10/ |
It is probably worth distinguishing what is the right solution and what is a politically tenable solution.
It's pretty gross that public opinion should decide what medical decisions a woman can make with her health care provider, but I guess we're in a democracy, so here we are. It really should be a constitutionally protected right and not something political.
Now in absence of the protection of RvW, it is left to legislators in the US. In all but the bluest states, it seems that no restriction access to abortions is a losing political effort. Pragmatically, it is probably time to accept that some kind of limit of 15-22 weeks with medical exceptions is significantly better than having it banned completely, even though there are plenty of problems with that approach.