Morning Joe is trash

[Hortensis]

89. :) Too easy? I've been married for a lot of years, and there was before...

But as to your request, it might be problematic to get a 5-year-old to understand that eventually -- WHEN being the eternally argued question -- a woman's reproductive system turns ONE person into TWO persons AND that society then has a duty to protect the rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of both.

I hope, though, that all the decades you had to live with Roe (a "between" consensus that fetal viability at roughly 24 weeks would be what a majority of disagreeing people could agree on) weren't too distressing. It's likely that someday we will pass a similar national law again -- because we have a representative democracy and nearly 3/4 of Americans say they specifically want legalized abortion, but with some legal limits to be agreed on.

Assuming we save our democracy, of course. An authoritarian Christian nationalist government might make all abortion illegal. A secular authoritarian state also. More reproduction produces more workers after all. It's horribly probable, though, that both would require abortion in some cases or some populations. But we're not going to let either happen.

Happy afternoon.