I think abortion is like a root canal.

[PowerToThePeople]

141. I think you are saying the same thing.

PeaceNikki (23,503 posts)
6. This comparison to cardiac or dental procedures is crazy, IMHO.

If there were well funded and hugely successful efforts limiting access to root canals, other procedures and preventative care, sweeping legislation being passed to stop them, protesting and bombing clinics and hospitals, killing surgeons, etc, then maybe.

But there aren't. So it fails

Donald Ian Rankin
139. No, the procedures are completely comparable; that's why the different responses are irrational.

If abortion were massively different to other medical procedures, the people trying to ban or restrict it might have a stronger case.

It's precisely because it isn't that they are wrong.

Her post is talking about the reactions and outcry over the procedure. You claim there should be no difference, that those reactions are irrational because it is a medical procedure like any you visit a doctor for. The difference I see is that while you and others acknowledge there there should not be any difference in reactions to abortion from any other procedure, PeaceNikki is actually out there voicing strong opposition to to irrationality and refusing to triangulate her language in order to appease the right wing. Many here are playing both political sides by using right wing framing to define how the procedure and those that have it are viewed.

They are wrong, but they are winning. We can not afford to find common ground with them any more, or else we will lose everything.

(middle of the night, no coffee. Hope that this post is intelligible)