>Many modern political issues do not have a middle ground - take abortion, you are either for choice, or you believe it is infanticide Those two options are no

>Many modern political issues do not have a middle ground - take abortion, you are either for choice, or you believe it is infanticide Those two options are not mutually exclusive. All healthy humans have an instinctive aversion to murder, and murder is universally considered morally wrong, but they do not have such an aversion to infanticide. In many cultures infanticide has been considered acceptable, and even in modern American people aren't going to ask too many questions if a new mother claims it was an accident. A new-born baby does not speak, it does not use tools, it fails the mirror test. By any objective measure it's less of a person than many animals we kill without a second thought. There's a strong argument that the mother should be allowed to make that decision, possibly even up to a short time (eg. 24 hours) post-birth.