The truth about the American public is that it does not care about nuance. It wants things, and it wants them now, and it does not care too much about how the sausage is made. But more than that, nuance often divides more than unites. The right has basically settled on 'abortion always bad.' What this means is that even if you don't hold…
The truth about the American public is that it does not care about nuance. It wants things, and it wants them now, and it does not care too much about how the sausage is made. But more than that, nuance often divides more than unites. The right has basically settled on 'abortion always bad.' What this means is that even if you don't hold this position, it's probably closer to what people who don't like abortion think. Most people are not all abortions should be illegal, but they tell themselves there will be exceptions. Whereas promoting 'abortions sometimes' as your maximalist argument means that you leave a lot out and a lot of people are split off from you. But then, it is always easier to be against something than for it.
I would say that third trimester abortions almost never happen unless the baby is already dead or seriously messed up somehow. Otherwise, we would call it 'birth.' I would know, I was born a full month early.
On some level though, this was always going to happen with abortion so long as we made the standard 'viability.' As science improved, the length of time that we could sustain a baby outside the womb grew longer, which meant the time to have a abortion before 'viability' became shorter. However, I didn't think they would just decide to throw the standard out all together.
Ironically, the people who say things like 'this issue is too important for the government to intrude on' most often are now saying that 'this issue is too important to leave to individuals to decide.'
The truth about the American public is that it does not care about nuance. It wants things, and it wants them now, and it does not care too much about how the sausage is made. But more than that, nuance often divides more than unites. The right has basically settled on 'abortion always bad.' What this means is that even if you don't hold this position, it's probably closer to what people who don't like abortion think. Most people are not all abortions should be illegal, but they tell themselves there will be exceptions. Whereas promoting 'abortions sometimes' as your maximalist argument means that you leave a lot out and a lot of people are split off from you. But then, it is always easier to be against something than for it.
I would say that third trimester abortions almost never happen unless the baby is already dead or seriously messed up somehow. Otherwise, we would call it 'birth.' I would know, I was born a full month early.
On some level though, this was always going to happen with abortion so long as we made the standard 'viability.' As science improved, the length of time that we could sustain a baby outside the womb grew longer, which meant the time to have a abortion before 'viability' became shorter. However, I didn't think they would just decide to throw the standard out all together.
Ironically, the people who say things like 'this issue is too important for the government to intrude on' most often are now saying that 'this issue is too important to leave to individuals to decide.'