Legally and constitutionally, the ruling was necessary. The Court didn’t address the moral issue. The people you call “GOP zealots” are mostly Christians who believe that it is morally wrong to destroy an innocent living human being. This belief has been held by orthodox Christians for two thousand years.
Legally and constitutionally, the ruling was necessary. The Court didn’t address the moral issue. The people you call “GOP zealots” are mostly Christians who believe that it is morally wrong to destroy an innocent living human being. This belief has been held by orthodox Christians for two thousand years.
I agree that the cases you cite are very difficult. But aside from crimes (rape and incest), the more fundamental problem is again a moral one: the expectation that people should be sexually active without consequences, i.e., babies. When we abandon ideas of marriage and chastity, we get casual sex, and that always results in unwanted pregnancies. You can’t look intelligently at the problem of abortion without addressing its cause. No one wants to do this, of course, because our society believes that you can’t be a whole person without having sex. Thus we can never solve the abortion problem, any more than we can follow the directions for baking a cake when we don’t have the list of ingredients.
I personally do not believe that any state legislature would be so daft as to pass laws throwing women having had illegal abortions in jail, or condemning a woman with an ectopic pregnancy to explode internally, or otherwise allowing a woman to die rather than interfere with a fetus. Most would reflect the desire of the people to recognize real difficulties and establish reasonable limitations. If a state refuses to be reasonable, well, people move from state to state for all kinds of reasons.
The status quo allowed the deaths of 63,000,000 children on the basis of a “right” that doesn’t exist in the Constitution. That is unconscionable. It had to change.
Kay, the states already had different parameters prior to the ruling and could curtail or expand. But this has created such divisive extremism . It’s now either all the way through delivery or no options. Sorry, this is unacceptable and so cruel. Both sides of the extremist spectrum are grotesque and devoid of empathy.
Legally and constitutionally, the ruling was necessary. The Court didn’t address the moral issue. The people you call “GOP zealots” are mostly Christians who believe that it is morally wrong to destroy an innocent living human being. This belief has been held by orthodox Christians for two thousand years.
I agree that the cases you cite are very difficult. But aside from crimes (rape and incest), the more fundamental problem is again a moral one: the expectation that people should be sexually active without consequences, i.e., babies. When we abandon ideas of marriage and chastity, we get casual sex, and that always results in unwanted pregnancies. You can’t look intelligently at the problem of abortion without addressing its cause. No one wants to do this, of course, because our society believes that you can’t be a whole person without having sex. Thus we can never solve the abortion problem, any more than we can follow the directions for baking a cake when we don’t have the list of ingredients.
I personally do not believe that any state legislature would be so daft as to pass laws throwing women having had illegal abortions in jail, or condemning a woman with an ectopic pregnancy to explode internally, or otherwise allowing a woman to die rather than interfere with a fetus. Most would reflect the desire of the people to recognize real difficulties and establish reasonable limitations. If a state refuses to be reasonable, well, people move from state to state for all kinds of reasons.
The status quo allowed the deaths of 63,000,000 children on the basis of a “right” that doesn’t exist in the Constitution. That is unconscionable. It had to change.
Kay, the states already had different parameters prior to the ruling and could curtail or expand. But this has created such divisive extremism . It’s now either all the way through delivery or no options. Sorry, this is unacceptable and so cruel. Both sides of the extremist spectrum are grotesque and devoid of empathy.