https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/republicans-roev-wade-abortion-supremecourt/2021/12/28/id/1050260/
I am afraid so as I have posted
In the first place, this starts with a great
legal mind giving a
political opinion. The question for Deshowitz is, is this a wrongly decided case? Are we deciding Supreme Court cases now by what the political consequences will be? If so, most likely your party is Democrat.
They cite polling data that is all over the map, mostly pro choice. For one thing, these STATE issues won't be decided by a national popular poll on an intentionally vague question.
Yes, overturning Roe v Wade involves a lot of political risk for Republicans, number one, overplaying their hand, like trying to restrict abortions in the case of rape. It's not a good argument to tell rape victims to be more careful who you have sex with. Second, many of those aborted would have grown up to be Democrats.
The two extreme choices that won't fly politically in swing states after Roe is overturned, banning all abortions and banning all restrictions on abortions. The issue will be a test for compromise on both sides.
What happens when you push-poll abortion instead of just asking vague questions:
Knowing that black unborn babies are consistently being killed at five times the rate of white babies, do you fully support doing that?
Knowing that an unborn has a full functioning heartbeat, can feel pain, has DNA totally separate and distinct from the mother, do you still support the right to end this life at any time for any reason?
Do you support the current law that the father has absolutely no say whatsoever in killing what is at least partly his own offspring?
After this watching time lapse video of the fetus growing gradually into a baby narrated with milestones of when different organs are functioning, with that process interrupted by the brutal killing by the abortion doctor on video, are you still fully in support with no reservations?
Knowing that abortions are done 99% for convenience reasons by Planned Parenthood's own numbers, do you still believe no restrictions on killing the unborn can be allowed?
Knowing that very likely we will soon be able to identify gay unborn for "choice" or elimination, not just Down syndrome, do you still favor the unrestricted ability to do that?
And so on. The issue is brought into the campaign, not just voted on.
I agree with G M. This horribly brutal practice will someday make the past acceptability of slavery look reasonable and humane in comparison.
Do political opinions ever change and change rapidly? Barack Obama ran for President believing (he said) that marriage can only be between a man and a woman. Wow, that fell fast. He would kicked off social media today, since he was somewhere to the right of Dick Cheney.
The science and imagery has come a long way since the last time we fought over abortion.
How about we just do the right thing and let the politics take care of itself?
