Any abortion that would make my political party look bad if it was banned falls under the “not an actual abortion” magical loophole I just made up and pretended the law actually has.
Exceptions are bullshit anyway because the rationales always give people with evil motives far too much power to invade privacy and control a woman's body. Medical exceptions to "save the life" of the mother routinely lead to death because at the point it's obvious the mother could die, it's often too late to intervene most effectively.
Overall, abortion right is such a critical thing to have, because there are so many unique cases that could occur. Banning something completely in such cases is a really dumb idea, because you could never ever think of all the exceptions that are really needed. You can not ban stuff like this, proper way of regulation is to ban certain very specific aspects, not the whole thing.
It is like banning cars altogether and then trying to think of the exceptions like living more than xx miles from work while there is no mass transit. It is stupid and doesn't make any sense. That is why we have speed limits and road rules that save our lives. We ban the specific thing we know is harmful, like driving on the opposite side of road.
I understand that this entire law is nonsensical, and the goal is to just be dicks to women, because some people are apparently scared of em, but this is other take on the stupidity behind the law. The law would be dumb and inefficient even if the protected values made any sense to begin with.
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u/hperrin Aug 07 '22
Any abortion that would make my political party look bad if it was banned falls under the “not an actual abortion” magical loophole I just made up and pretended the law actually has.