You may not like the agreed upon rules but that's how the game is played by. The Democrats just need to put on their grown up pants, win some more seats in the US Senate by advancing policies popular in a majority of the states needed to win. And they need to play hard ball with appointments just like the Republicans do.
Some people I know think government is a force of good. But I’m not sure I agree. I think government may be necessary, and evil sometimes required, but still an evil. We should do everything in our power to shrink our government.
I am often taken back by the hypocrisy of Albany County’s Health Department campaign, “Even One Child’s Death is Too Many.”
The county is very concerned about children drowning, people not stopping for school buses, or mother’s having children in bed with them and accidentally crushing them, but not so much about abortion. Any way you look at it, a child dies.
Now I’m not one to say that abortion should be banned, but it shouldn’t be celebrated nor should it be common. If you engage in a sexual act, you are creating a child. If you change your mind after the fact and get an abortion, you are killing a child.
There are many reasons abortion should be available. It’s basic healthcare and it can save lives of the mother, who might be burdened by a child birth and raising when they are unprepared. Or the pregnancy could be very risky. But by no means should it be free and without consequences.
Maybe the penalty could be a civil offense or a misdemeanor for all but the most egregious offenses like woefully reckless sexual behavior. Penalties could be as minor as just a required public apology and legal record of the death. There should be at least an acknowledgement that a child was created who later was killed.
It shouldn’t be about denying a necessary abortion but I don’t agree with celebrating it as a right or as a form of liberation. After all, it is the intentional death of a child, which in many ways is more tragic then an accidental drowning, crash or crushing. Abortion should be available, but it shouldn’t be free or without consequence.
I am a believer in freedom of choice and the right of people to make private choices in their own lives. Especially with the abortion pill, if not for state restrictions, it never has been easier for women to get a safe and legal abortion in the privacy of their own home.
The abortion pill isn’t available for all stages of pregnancy and can have side effects like a miscarriage requiring medical supervision and may not be appropriate in all cases. Sometimes in person care and counseling can be better and should be allowed. But I think more medication abortions are part of the way forward and fewer abortion clinics.
I’m no fan of organizations that promote abortion and sexuality for purposes other than child birth. While I think care should be available for those in need of an abortion, I have problems with active promotion of such organizations. Maybe they feel like they have to zellous advocates for abortion when the opposition is so certain but I find it rather obnoxious. I hate the throwaway society, throwaway human life included.
I’d like abortion to be medicine, something private, non political. Something decided by families in the privacy of their own home or with a trusted doctor and not something brandished around town. Not a political issue but a personal one.
This should be noted that map show all states that currently restrict abortion to less then 20 weeks, with most allowing it up to 6 weeks, though there are a few that are from the start of conception. And some of these states have their abortion bans being reviewed by courts. But still, abortion is far less available these days then a few years ago.
While Congressional Districts are evenly propositioned within their states, the formula that allocates the number of districts to states makes some under and over populated.
In addition, over the past year, people have moved since the 2020 Census was completed, which has further distorted the population in each Congressional District.
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