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My actual point was that the left is uncompromising as well. There are certainly absolutists on the right. The fact that you brought up a foam-at-the-mouth com

My actual point was that the left is uncompromising as well. There are certainly absolutists on the right. The fact that you brought up a foam-at-the-mouth comment from a disgraced former politician seems like a point for the there's-too-much-partisanship-on-the-left-too column. There is actually common ground on the abortion issue, perhaps counter-intuitively. There is overwhelming support for reducing abortion rates, for example. The American people would absolutely be OK with a compromise that includes education, increased access to birth control, and bans on abortions after, say, 8 months of gestation.

DanBC 11y ago
You've mentioned this 8 month thing a few times. You probably need to know that there are good reasons why a woman might need to get an abortion at 8 months. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129580-200-the-world-needs-to-talk-about-child-euthanasia/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129580-200-the-worl... Listening to anti-abortionists you'd think the woman just found the pregnancy inconvenient, when the reality is that the woman is going through an intensely traumatic time and having to cope with the loss of a much wanted child.