Dear JeffAtlanta,
"Respectfully, I don't think this is true. It makes big news anytime that conservatives try to put any type of restriction at all on abortion."
You'd be surprised. The pro-aborts, even as they fight even the slightest restrictions on abortion, make out to folks that most abortions are for rape or incest, or a mother's life, and that there is a health restriction for later-term abortions.
Well, the states ARE permitted to make a health restriction for later term abortions. That is what Roe v. Wade says. However, lots of folks don't realize that "health," as interpreted by the Supreme Court, is so vast as to be meaningless.
Lots of folks don't really have a lot of solid factual knowledge about the topic. It is a very emotional topic, and often, folks don't even want to hear. I know that I tried for decades to tell my own mother about this stuff. She refused to listen. Just flat out refused. "Woman's body" "Between her god, her doctor, and herself" and all the other unadulterated crap.
Two years before she died, I learned she'd had a complete change of heart, and had come to a position to desire that laws be changed to nearly ban abortion. I asked, hey, what's up?
She said, "Did you know that over 96% of abortions are NOT about life of the mother, rape, incest, or severe deformity?? Many women are using abortion as birth control! Did you know there are over 1.3 million abortions per year in this country??"
I said, "Mom, I told you that 20 years ago."
"No, you didn't!!"
"Well, I tried, you just wouldn't listen!"
"You didn't say it nicely!"
Well, perhaps. Yes, it's all my fault. ;-)
Who knows. From my perspective, she was quite invested in her beliefs about "a woman's body" and all that crap, and just wouldn't listen. But someone, or perhaps Someone, got through to her somehow, some way.
But it's hard. The pro-abortion fascists have done a good job of foisting onto our society, and Western society in general, the entire Big Lie.
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