Arkansas Senate passes bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks

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72. Let me be very clear

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I came for the same reason everyone of us did: to find camaraderie in our shared progressive beliefs.
I have no agenda. I'm not trying to push anything.
My life experience is not meaningless.
I already deleted my original post because, upon reflection, its tone was wrong and not really representative of my beliefs.
Here is what I believe:
I agree with the Supreme Court's opinion that women do have the right to privacy of their own bodies. It should be up to a woman and her doctor. This does not mean I don't think it's a baby we're talking about. This is exactly the position articulated by Biden in the VP debate. I must have missed the castigation he surely deserved, by your standards, for personally respecting what he considers to be a life. Despite that, he does not believe in the kinds of legislation being proposed by many state legislatures.
Given the stats I included in another post, I found that the vast majority of women who have abortions, do so before 13 weeks. I therefore concluded that the Ark. Law was unnecessary. It's called changing your mind based on new information. It's actually a good quality.
Unfortunately Republicans want to legislate this issue. That is the reality.
Since they are not going to drop it, it seems Democrats will either have to defeat every bill or fight to change the wording of the law to bring it closer to their position.
You may be engaging in what is called "all-or-nothing thinking." It's a tendency to see the world in black and white with no middle ground, rather than considering that each side of an issue may have both positive and negative aspects and many shades of grey.
If you want me to agree with you on bad Republican legislation, great, I'm with you.
But if you want me to give up my personal convictions, I cannot comply.