@hightor,
hightor wrote:
Quote: If you've never committed abortion, but you advocate for it, they're not going to vote for you just because you are morally pure of abortion on your personal record.
Who "advocates for abortion"? The issue is a woman's
right to an abortion.
You are talking semantics. The fact is that many people are upset about abortion as a form a killing. If liberals were arguing they are not for killing but only for a killer's right to kill, that would be unacceptable to people who believe in legislating killing with laws against murder in various degrees, manslaughter, etc.
If abortion becomes legislatable again, we will probably see different degrees of severity in the criminalization of abortion, depending on circumstances, the age and condition of the fetus, etc. I doubt that late-term abortions will carry the same penalty when there is proof that the baby wouldn't survive birth or long after anyway, or when the mother's life was in danger. It will be similar to instances in which people are killed due to circumstances that made it difficult for the killer to avoid killing.
The main purpose of legislating abortion, imo, is to stop its abuse as a form of birth control. Personally, I think full abstinence and celibacy are the best policy unless there is an intent to get pregnant, but probably most people will fall into a continuum at a less conservative point.
The main problem with half a century of Roe v. Wade is that abortion has gotten more prevalent instead of less, and sex has grown less and less sacred as having the natural function of reproduction. People should generally honor the connection between sex and the germination of human life, which is not only a religious belief but a biological reality.