I have re-labeled my opinion as pro-abortion.
No more mealy-mouthed bullshit. We are not talking about a choice. We are talking about an abortion.
I don’t think anybody is pro-abortion. I think that term muddied the waters quite a bit. It implies the whole “abortion as a form of primary birth control” talking point that the zealots like to point at as if it’s a common case.
I for sure won’t say those people are “pro-life”. Far from it. If anything fits anyone better, it’s calling them “anti-choice”.
Why should I change? They’re the ones who suck.
Abortion not only needs to be legal but medical privacy needs to be absolute. The only way to have restrictions on abortion care (or any medical care) is to have government knowledge on all medical treatment given to individuals. This will also protect LGBTQ+ and men.
Bodily autonomy alongside medical privacy. But yeah
American issue is that they package many independent opinions into just 2 political “labels”. And then you get seemingly schizophrenic results like this.
Not just an American issue though, it’s happening elsewhere too, but maybe less extreme.
Shoots to 100% when you describe procedures and don’t use the word abortion.
“do you support people’s right to decide what medical procedures are or are not performed on them?”
That is the 85% under some circumstances.
The 15% are religious nuts who believe that if a mother dies during childbirth then it was God’s will.
Source?
Gross
15% believe it should not be legal under any circumstances…
Until themselves, partner or child is affected by a lethal complication. Then suddenly 14.9% of them change their mind.
“The only moral abortion is my abortion”
“If she dies it was God’s will.”
-the 15%
Yep. Same set that probably lets their kid die because they refuse vaccines of any kind or medical treatment when ill.
The world would be a better place if abortions were more readily available
And if blokes could get pregnant, this shit wouldn’t even be up for debate.
It’s all about controlling women.
‘Up to 85%’ is a meaningless figure
what a person does with their body should never be controlled by a government. if the nazis in charge actually cared, they’d use the laws already there for things like “murder” and “child endangerment.”
There are plenty of things that Americans, in general, actually agree on. As much as the expression is disliked, there is a broad center that endorses at least moderate reform.
The problem is the fptp system that bundles people who are okay “just a little reform but not too much” with actual regressives, and people who actively support moderate reform with those too progressive for the “just a little” folks.
The end result is stagnation in popular issues due to the inflexibility of the electorate and enabling less democratic influences to dictate policy.
It’s never going to be legalized because it makes both ruling parties so much money. Based off the Roe repeal leak alone the Democrats pulled in $80,000,000 in donations. (Donations that they can legally pocket by loaning their campaigns money at 20% interest.)
And you can’t expect capitalists to kill a golden goose.
