re: Poll Finds “Dramatic and Sudden” Shift in America Toward Pro-Life Label

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And yet conservatives will never outlaw abortion bc so many of them have had one. Isn't life funny like that?

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There is a big difference between outlawing abortion and making sensible legislation allowing it at sensible times. I have no problems with allowing abortions in cases of rape, incest, and even if the parents can reasonably demonstrate they would be complete frick ups at parenting as long as the abortion takes place in the first half or so of the pregnancy. I don't think a Shakira law (whenever, wherever) is sensible legislation though.

To me conception is not life, it is the potential for life and that makes a difference. A lot of things never reach their potential. The further along the pregnancy goes the more that gauge slides towards life and away from potential for life but until the fetus is capable of relying on it's own circulatory, digestive, respiratory, and other biological systems I don't consider it to be a separate individual. I get that everybody's mileage varies on this but there should be plenty of room for a reasonably happy middle ground here when both sides are not acting like doofi.