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Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
17. The only impression I have of your opinion is what you write about it
Wed May 4, 2016, 02:20 AM
May 2016

You write that you agree with Clinton's desire for abortion to be "safe, legal, and rare" without offering much explanation other than you seem to think abortion should be something other than a first option. This suggests to me you wish some sort of control over the process beyond simply leaving it up to the patient and doctor.

No, I do not share your Sunday school memories as mine were within the Unitarian church which was quite different than conservative Christian groups, but my remembrances of their position both pre and post Roe v Wade is the Southern Baptist convention embraced Roe v Wade. One of the lawyers who argued Roe v Wade was a Southern Baptist from my home state of Texas which is where the case originated. Their position really didn't change much until years after when they eventually aligned with Catholic groups and embraced the "life begins at conception" nonsense.

The standard of fetal viability which eventually came from Roe v Wade actually wasn't all that popular with anyone, and it most certainly is arbitrary. It was just seen by some jurists as a compromise between an outright ban and anything goes.

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