Reply #109: PRO-CHOICE FIRST TRIMESTER/PRO-LIFE THIRD

[yurbud]

The pro-choice argument is strongest for early in the pregnancy, especially early intervention like the morning after pill when you are just aborting a dot of undifferentiated cells. The pro-life people look a little like they are arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a needle when they try to call sixteen cells a human life.

The pro-life argument is strongest in the third trimester and after viability. There is a moral truth to the revulsion at torn apart babies that could just as easily have been delivered alive. If you want to get your baby out after viability fine. Pop it any day you want. Just don't kill it. Leave it alive for someone else.




I also have a hard time believing it's better for the health of the mother when a couple of the late methods are essentially comparable to delivering the baby alive.

This might tilt some undecideds, but if the DLC types think this is going to pull evangelicals and hardcore right wingers from the GOP, they are grossly mistaken.

We have room to expand our tent, but this issue isn't going to radically change the number of people in it.

What will is focusing on economic and democracy issues as values.

Big business is anti-democratic and hurts families to make more money.