andyt andyt:
You're actually falling into a trap here, assuming you believe in abortion on demand, at least for non-viable fetuses. The Repubs (and our own Canadian crazies) would turn around and say, OK, we'll allow abortion for rape and incest cases, but not otherwise. Is that what you want? Better to argue for a woman's right to abortion no matter what the cause of conception, then talk about reasonable limits, like once the fetus becomes viable, around weeks.
Well, goalpost moving is always a lot of fun when it succeeds in dragging your opponent in the direction you want them to move and they seem blissfully unaware of it. Or so unable to counter the strategy that they end up almost paralyzed, like the Democrats seem to have been since the mid-1990's. It's like with me. I believe, for example, that earthquakes are caused by shifting tectonic plates and not by lack of school prayer or by gay marriage. When dealing with normal folks, which would have included most conservatives and most Republicans some 20-odd years ago, and non-ideologues this seems to me to be a centrist, provable, and empirically-logical POV to have. Yet to a contemporary American Republican I'm probably somewhere to the left of Lenin for thinking this way. The fact that I've never actually voted for a leftist party in my entire life wouldn't be good enough for them because they've moved the goalposts so far to the right that a centrist or a moderate conservative is now on the left and no longer welcome in the clubhouse.
It's a difficult strategy to fight against. Almost like being stuck in a tar pit or something similiar.
CKA Uber 
(oh wait, his name is Biden, right? 
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CKA Super Elite 
