Is not what we really want in this country. It is a failed solution in a country that is not living up to its obligations to treat all citizens equally. It is piecemeal and a last resort. When we could end abortion by other means.
It's been maintained as a bastion against many other things liberals have not been able to make the case for in a country dominated by rightwing media. Anymore than we've been able to make the case for clean water, air, other civil rights and protections of human beings and animals and species.
It's not that the ideas are not good; it's been through a process of Cold War fears, along with deregulation that have taken away the dignity of all Americans through right wing think tanks and funding churches to rationalize support of the rich and powerful, and then to focus on the poor as morally reprehensible.
When the issue is so much bigger than drugs, abortion, or anything else. So many have spoken on these things, that we are embattled on:
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor. - Voltaire
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. - Herman Melville
The entire issue would not exist if we pushed for more equality and respect for the humanity of the woman and child without considering the pregnancy itself, and not the right to abort one.
The reason why so many people on our side of the aisle are silent on this issue is that they know abortion is a poor solution to a far greater problem that we have not even been allowed to discuss.
Or they are hypocrites, but we are talking among ourselves and are for the most part a group of liberal, progressive, egalitarian Democrats here at DU.
And I am explaining that in my own words except for the quotations and mean no offense to you or any other DUer.
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