Arkansas Senate passes bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks

[kdmorris]

80. I am aware of all these things

I took a bit of exception to what SEEMED like coming into the middle of the discussion and saying we were coming after you with pitchforks and torches unfairly when your ORIGINAL post and a few subsequent attempts to defend that original post were what caused those feelings. Saying that you believe a 20 week old fetus is a human baby was not the issue. I happen to believe that myself. I'm carrying two of them, after all.

I appreciate that you've backed off of your original position. Truly, it takes a big person to do that.

I just don't want others to think that we were unfair in being upset with a position IN THE BEGINNING that you yourself now admit was extreme.

If we've found agreement on this, then I'm glad. If you believe that abortion needs to be legislated, I still disagree with you. But, as long as you don't accuse me of wanting to kill babies when they are born and calling that abortion, disagreement is not a problem. I actually do believe that well meaning and thoughtful people CAN disagree on this. I just think it can be done without accusing us all (the "pro-choice" side) of infanticide or looking at all sides of the situation.

The side of this that calls themselves "pro-life" are usually anti-abortion. Most of them do not believe that abortion should happen ever, unless it's going to kill you to have the baby. Most of them would label me "pro-abortion", which I am not. I am, however, in favor of every woman having a choice... starting with contraception - the choice to avoid a pregnancy. I hope I am never faced with the choices that most women who have second and third trimester abortions is faced with. It's horrible and cruel to have to make that choice.

My post to this poster was not an attempt to continue to indict you despite your apologies. It was to say that I didn't think s/he could say that we were being unfair to you when s/he wasn't aware of the beginning of this conversation... Nothing else. I am sorry if you took it to be the former.