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Your thoughts are ironic because you have a very uncompromising view of your 'opponents'. It is the simple truth that while many Americans say they dislike abo
by ubernostrum 10y ago
Your thoughts are ironic because you have a very uncompromising view of your 'opponents'.
It is the simple truth that while many Americans say they dislike abortion, or want some types of restrictions on it, the primary driver is not those peoples' opinions, because they don't hold those opinions very strongly. The primary driver is a much, much smaller but almost unbelievably more vocal subset who take an absolute hard-line stance, turn out at every election, and treat it as essentially the only issue on the ballot.
Those are the ones Republican leaders are trying to appease without actually appeasing, because while they love the reliable automatic support on election day they know what would happen if those folks ever actually got their way.
- humanrebar 10y agoI understand what you're saying. I was wondering if you understood what I was. I believe you don't. We might disagree on the empirical question. It might surprise you that American legal code is largely to the left of the rest of the world. Most countries do not allow on-demand abortion with no gestational limit. It's not a hard-line right-wing stance to want to bring American case law in line with Italy, Hungary, or France.
- ubernostrum 10y agoMost countries do not allow on-demand abortion with no gestational limit Well, the US doesn't allow that either, so I'm not sure what exactly you think your argument is. Though to be perfectly honest I think historically-Catholic countries (y'know, like the ones you mentioned, and while we're at it let's add Ireland) could do with a bit of being dragged kicking and screaming in the direction of the 21st, or at least late 20th, century on this and other sex-related issues.