>> If Americans could be reached with logical arguments on abortions, there wouldn’t still be millions being performed each year. Either people are too easily persuaded by the empty arguments of the other side, or they just don’t care.
We’ve come a long way since Roe v. Wade. Radical feminism was big in the 60’s and 70’s ... today, its a relic (as are its proponents, both figuratively and literally). Support for abortion-as-birth-control is relegated to the fringe. Most abortion supporters are simply “rape, incest, life of the mother” supporters — which is a SMALL percentage of abortions.
The ONLY reason abortion-on-demand is still available is because we haven’t quite captured a majority on the Court. Left to democratic devices (i.e. if the state legislatures passed the laws, rather than the Supreme Court), abortion would be illegal throughout most of the country with the exceptions of rape, incest and life of the mother exemptions.
I’d say that’s a victory, and it should inspire confidence in the moral compass of the American public. One more vote on the Court, and the fight goes back to the State Legislators, where it should be — and where we’ll win easily across most of the country.
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Well, that sort of shoots down the argument that we will only stop abortion when we change people’s hearts and minds. There are more abortions now than there was when Roe v Wade was first decided. And why don’t we have more Pro-life justices on the court? Because voters didn’t care when they elected Bill Clinton in 92 and again in 96. Perhaps instead of a Breyer and Ginsburg, we could have had 2 more conservative justices. But it “was the economy, stupid” and people voted with their pocketbooks and could have cared less about the killing of preborn babies.