Presidential election, 2016

[David Horn]

(12-14-2016, 08:02 AM)Odin Wrote:

(12-14-2016, 06:28 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(12-13-2016, 10:05 PM)Earl and Mooch Wrote: Governor Kasich vetoed that bill, but signed one banning abortion after twenty weeks.

As long as Millennials don't care enough to stop it, abortion rights will be whittled away to nothing.  I'm shocked that Millennial women seem to be totally disengaged, but apparently they are.

Unlike gay marriage, abortion is just as controversial with Millennials as with older generations, and Millennials have no memories of back-alley abortions. Also, 20 weeks is almost 5 months, it's almost at the point of viability outside the womb, anyway. Even many of us who are OK with abortion in general are morally uncomfortable with on-demand abortions that late, the absolutism many on the left have on the abortion can make them look ridiculous for this reason, the absolutists I mentioned elsewhere who almost bit my head off for saying that abortion is a necessary evil rather than a "liberating social good".

The courts pinned the viability of the fetus outside the womb to development rather than any rigid gestation period.  They also cited 24 weeks as a guideline.  Obviously, this is an attempt to whittle away.  Get it down to 20, then start lobbying for 16.  It's cynicism in action.

I do agree that abortion is bad, but less bad than the alternative.  It should never be just an alternative .contraception option.  Unfortunately, there is no viable way to allow the one while disallowing the other.  Millennials are just like every other generation: unappreciative of the struggles of the past ... until it affects them personally.  You guys have raised it to an art form, though.