Just as I said there isn’t a soul that has ever lived that wanted to pay taxes, there also is not a soul alive that likes the idea of getting an abortion. No one wants to get one. No one wants to be in the situation of having to decide if they need to get one. So I take issue with the terms “pro-abortion” and “pro-life”. Everyone is pro-life. It simply comes down to being willing to be realistic and accept that guess what, abortions were taking place before it became legal in 1973, and will continue to happen even after the Supreme Court struck down Roe, only just as before they will become very dangerous and life threatening procedures.
Where does it say in the Constitution that the government, whether it be local, state, or federal, has the ability to tell ANY citizen what they can and can’t do with their body? Until the fetus has the ability to survive outside of the mother, she has 100% control of the decision making of what happens to her body. End of story.
Here again, who makes the laws traditionally? Men. Who sits in judgment of those laws on the Supreme Court? Men with one or two exceptions. Can you imagine if the roles were reversed and women were the ones passing laws about men’s bodies and what they could and couldn’t do? It wouldn’t be tolerated. And we should not tolerate social conservatives trying to do everything they can for 50 years to subvert and circumnavigate women’s access to health services and their ability to exercise their right to full body autonomy just as any man would expect and demand.
Furthermore, the ironic part about the abortion issue is that once again it is the 2 party system making it into a much bigger issue in the public arena than it needs to be. Total abortions in recent years have been around 600,000 a year in the US, which is down from its peak of 1.4 MILLION in 1990. They have consistently been declining year after year, every year, since that peak in 1990.
There are also 2 huge myths perpetuated by the far right 1) that every abortion is of a perfectly healthy fetus (when in reality the vast majority of abortions are of fetuses that have severe and usually terminal developmental defects), and 2) that there are a lot of late term abortions of perfectly healthy babies that would have survived otherwise (it simply doesn’t happen).
Lastly, for those who want to get rid of abortion, how is it possible that they cannot see the inconsistency in their argument, because even if every baby was brought to term and given birth to, and then the mothers abandoned them, the same social conservatives would not be willing to drastically increased public funding to care for those babies from birth through to adulthood, or be willing to pass gun legislation to protect them from being one of the 33,000+ Americans that die from a gunshot every year!
Perry Waag 