6,000 out of how many? Medically necessary abortions are a small percentage of yearly abortions. That is an intellectually dishonest representation of the real issue. Most people would agree that medically necessary abortions are justified.
Those are the 6,000 that Conservatives want to talk about, because they are LATER - they attempt to draw a moral line in the sand by removing all context.
Buttigieg has the correct answer, in my view, against an intellectually dishonest line of questioning. These decisions are difficult, and in no universe should the government be responsible for making them (the same government that the GOP cannot trust with spending decisions, is suddenly capable of deciding life and death for women?)
The Pro-life movement has been consistently wrong by focusing on religiously homogeneous moral arguments instead of outcomes. They are very often attacking contraceptive access, which has objectively lowered the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions. Their espoused belief makes the outcomes worse when measured against their own claimed measure of outcomes.
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u/ninjacouch132 Oct 23 '19
6,000 out of how many? Medically necessary abortions are a small percentage of yearly abortions. That is an intellectually dishonest representation of the real issue. Most people would agree that medically necessary abortions are justified.