08-19-2015, 10:52 AM
Sure thing Maggot. Almost everyone changes their minds on some issues. That's not a problem.
Why you couldn't simply acknowledge "changing your mind" several times in the course of just a couple of days and instead suggested that my memory was faulty and I needed to "look back" is strange to me. I can't read your mind to know when or why it changes; I rely on your words.
I understand that it's not cut and dry to you. It is for many people who understand the issue. They either don't give a shit or don't have an opinion in regards to cutoffs. Or, they don't oppose abortion at any point because they think it's solely the right of the woman to decide. Or they oppose all abortion because they believe life begins at conception and the woman has no right to decide. Or, they oppose abortion at the point at which the fetus might be able to feel pain. Or, they oppose abortion at the point at which the fetus could survive on its own outside of the womb. Some believe exceptions should be made past those cutoffs for one or more of the following: fetal abnormality, health or death risk to the woman, rape, and incest.
Anyway, it really doesn't matter why or which of your seemingly random cut-offs (in regards to how long a woman has to "make up her mind" and when she no longer has the right to choose what she does with her body) suits your fancy from day to day; 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 10 weeks, 8 - 10 weeks... I was just trying to understand your views. But, what you think, and what you think other people should therefore think, doesn't impact the fact that it's perfectly legal for women to have abortions well beyond any of those points in every state in the country.
Why you couldn't simply acknowledge "changing your mind" several times in the course of just a couple of days and instead suggested that my memory was faulty and I needed to "look back" is strange to me. I can't read your mind to know when or why it changes; I rely on your words.
I understand that it's not cut and dry to you. It is for many people who understand the issue. They either don't give a shit or don't have an opinion in regards to cutoffs. Or, they don't oppose abortion at any point because they think it's solely the right of the woman to decide. Or they oppose all abortion because they believe life begins at conception and the woman has no right to decide. Or, they oppose abortion at the point at which the fetus might be able to feel pain. Or, they oppose abortion at the point at which the fetus could survive on its own outside of the womb. Some believe exceptions should be made past those cutoffs for one or more of the following: fetal abnormality, health or death risk to the woman, rape, and incest.
Anyway, it really doesn't matter why or which of your seemingly random cut-offs (in regards to how long a woman has to "make up her mind" and when she no longer has the right to choose what she does with her body) suits your fancy from day to day; 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 10 weeks, 8 - 10 weeks... I was just trying to understand your views. But, what you think, and what you think other people should therefore think, doesn't impact the fact that it's perfectly legal for women to have abortions well beyond any of those points in every state in the country.