Quote Originally Posted by Robus View Post
"The ends justify the means" is a core attitude of progressivism. Lick your fingertips and stick them up in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. What's "in" this week? Unlimited abortion up to and including infanticide? Allowing men to compete in women's sports? Grooming young school children to embrace absurd and false ideas about ***, gender? Racial and *** discrimination in the name of "equity?" Opening your borders to unchecked mass immigration? Suppression of speech rights?

Leftists will ALWAYS be able to manufacture a legal pretext for those things.

In 1973 Justice Harry Blackmum produced a monument to that logic: Roe v. Wade. He put is finger in the air and decided: Abortion is "in." The he manufactured a legal pretext to make it happen. It has taken us 50 years to set it right.
And the Right don't similarly "manufacture legal pretexts"?I

I get it that the Roe v Wade thing was over turned on a legal technicality but the real question remains why so many Americans are against abortion, even in cases of rape? "Infanticide"? Really?

I would very obviously not wish this on anyone but, for arguments sake, say your wife or daughter was attacked and raped and got pregnant and they were adamant they wanted an abortion, would you protest against it? Or say that your daughter got pregnant by her husband/partner but early scans picked up severe problems that indicated a very high chance that the baby would have low life expectancy and little quality of life and would need to be on life support. Your daughter and partner make to difficult decision to terminate. Would you fight their decision?

Abortion in itself isn't an "in" thing, it isn't about "fashion". It's about not over-riding the rights of the individual girls/women concerned to have freedom of choice about their own bodies-and the foetus isn't a self supporting entity at that point.