FlyingEagle: “How can that be negotiable at all.”
Wars are not won in a single battle. It’s negotiable, because it moves the goal posts to the right. 20 weeks is better than 25. 15 weeks would be better than 20, but you take whatever political victories you can when you can get them. Then you fight for more. That’s exactly how the left has managed to move the country inexorably to the left year after year. They don’t try to bite off more than they can politically chew at one time. The recent Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage was exactly that. They knew they couldn’t get away with mandating gay marriage across the nation at this point, so they built the foundation to do it in ten or 15 years.
If you want abortion to be very, very rare (or not at all), then it’s wise to methodically move to the right. That, btw, is EXACTLY why the left is up in arms over this! They use the incremental approach against us. They understand it very well, and they KNOW it’s far, far easier to beat them with incremental wins. They seem to be irrational. Opposing 20 weeks makes no reasonable sense unless you see it in the larger scheme of things. If we can do 20 weeks, we can do 12, and that’s exactly why they are livid over this.
I should add, the left is immoral and evil, but they are NOT stupid. Their leaders know exactly what they’re doing, and that’s why they’ve been winning for decades.
This Texas law is an excellent opportunity to strike back! This isn’t about banning abortion! It’s about women’s safety. It’s about the quality of medical care, and it’s about saving infants that would otherwise survive outside the womb.
It wasn’t all that long ago when the left changed gay marriage into “marriage equality.” Well, we’ve got to learn to use their own techniques against them. Again. This law is for safe, quality medical care—not anti-abortion. It’s about saving children who have developed enough to feel pain and survive on their own outside the womb. This is NOT an anti-abortion law. It’s about making abortion safe, legal, and rare—the exact same rhetoric used by the left to beat us earlier.