Well, you’re putting words in my mouth.
The question is: Should women be put in prison for having an abortion?
My position is: Abortion dies as a political issue if one of the goals is to put women in prison for having an abortion. I want the number of abortions to decrease so I do not want abortion to die as a political issue. So putting women in prison is not something I have any interest in.
You ask: “you don’t want anyone punished at all?” Oh, I want doctors to lose their medical license at a minimum. And prison time for them is a distinct possibility.
Is there a contradiction? I simply don’t care. Murdering children is bad and I want it to stop. Nothing else carries equal weight.
Murdering children is bad and I want it to stop.
it will not stop without legal restrictions...
I want the number of abortions to decrease...So putting women in prison is not something I have any interest in.
most people want bank robberies to decrease; you think this is accomplished by indifference to the perpetrators...?
In the real world, your policies have the best chance of success.
Which is the most ‘moral’ approach: one that’s more likely to curtail abortion, although it does not punish some of the parties to it; or one which is entrenched in the ‘moral high ground’, insisting on punishment of all offenders — even though that position perpetuates the problem?
It’s about time that conservatives learned to play the long-game, and use incremental steps to achieve goals (as the other side has done so successfully).