Abortion is a medical procedure resulting in the termination of a human pregnancy and death of a fetus. Abortion was banned in 30 states until the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. The ruling made abortion legal in all 50 states but gave them regulatory powers over when abortions could be performed during a pregnancy. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in the case Dobbs v. Jackson. The court ruled that the substantive right to abortion was not “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history or tradition”, nor considered a right when the Due Process Clause was ratified in 1868.
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Response rates from 25.1m America voters.
61% Pro-choice |
39% Pro-life |
51% Pro-choice |
31% Pro-life |
5% Pro-choice, and providing birth control, sex education, and more social services will help reduce the number of abortions |
7% Pro-life, but allow in cases of rape, incest, or danger to the mother or child |
4% Pro-choice, I don’t agree but the government has no right to ban it |
0% Pro-life, and I also oppose abortion for victims of rape and incest |
2% Pro-choice, but ban after the first three months |
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@4RZFDJG4yrs4Y
If the Father of the unborn child is willing and capable of caring for the child and wants to assume legal custody of child and is a fit parent, I feel he should have an equal say in the decision. There should be rights for Fathers who are able and willing.
I think this may encourage people to be more thoughtful about intimacy. I believe Men should have a say in the decision of the termination of their unborn child.
I also believe in required counseling before and after abortion as it often leads to eventual traumatic disorders and depression.
@5928RG74yrs4Y
End all programs, no abortive procedures period. Lock up all doctors, nurses, staff of any facility that participated in any abortive acts. I want stiff penalties for medical staff and go after any women who have had an abortion and grandfathering it. For each abortion 15 years to life it is premeditated murder not only for the woman also the man that impregnated her!!!
@8LY3TR94yrs4Y
I am pro life but if you are raped, then you can have a abortion but if your were stupid and had sex at a young age then don't abort it.
@4VXBP8Q4yrs4Y
Abortion should be mandatory for anyone with an IQ under 120.
@5MBK6ZX4yrs4Y
I'm personally against it but strongly believe that it's just like the presidential election, if you don't vote you can't say anything. If you disagree with abortion what are you going to do to help those kids who didn't get aborted and are now in foster homes? If you're going to be against it, do something to help. Adopt that baby of the mother you judged for wanting an abortion.
@4RZ875Q4yrs4Y
The government should fund abortions. End the Hyde Amendment. Abortion is healthcare.
@528MY4M4yrs4Y
I do not agree with a helpless human life being ended purely because of any unfortunate circumstance which may have created that life. But I DO NOT agree that my beliefs should be FORCED upon another. Let each make their choices until science can factually determine when life begins.
@58TJZW24yrs4Y
I agree it is a MAN and WOMAN's combined decision. It the man wants the baby she should carry to full term and the man raise the baby.
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France Makes Abortion A Constitutional Right
@Patriot-#17769MO
Demonstrably false. From the point of conception, the new life is a baby. He/she is a separate individual than his/her mother. Science.
@fart_smeller689MO
you are pretty embarrassing, jesus christ. i never said we don't live off of other people, but living off of other people and a fetus living off a person's body are not the same things. consumerism and birth are not comparable, jeez louise! you're a little coocoo, y'know, patriot? but I still love you, sweetie pie. you'll be mine forever.
@Patriot-#17769MO
Don't worry, feeling embarrassed is totally normal after someone schools you and mops the floor with your argument's bloody carcass. Yes, unborn children living off their mothers and us living off other people are very comparable, and you've provided no evidence they aren't. This entire argument was an emotional unload totally devoid of all logic.
@Patriot-#1776
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Abortion rights win big in 2023 off-year elections
@PumaSummer1Y
Ohio just enshrined the right to an abortion into the state constitution. Young people & women were fired up, turned out, and made Republicans find out. Turns out that abortion is a kitchen-table issue & Democrats can run on it & win. Another big win for Democrats.
@UnforgettableDem0cr4t1Y
Aren’t the “they” up for election every 2-4 years?
Seems like the open vote is continuously occurring.
@PumaSummer1Y
Truly you aren’t that naive. The fact that Dems can still mop the floor with them despite the voter restrictions and gerrymandering should scare them.
@UnforgettableDem0cr4t
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Republicans struggle to talk about abortion
@L0bby1stCharlotte12MO
Republicans didn’t “end roe v. Wade”. The Supreme Court returned power to the States that was stolen by the fed government. It’s purely a tenth amendment decision and had nothing to do with abortion.
@JudicialHazel12MO
Yes, I'm sure we don't have to worry about the guy who tried to overturn the election results and vowed to be a dictator being authoritarian
@L0bby1stCharlotte12MO
“Vowed to be a dictator being authoritarian”
This is not a phrase used by someone who is smart.
Neither of the things you have stated are true, either. Horrible news all around for you.
@JudicialHazel
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Democratic Party Ramps Up "Dirty Tricks" Against RFK Jr. Campaign
@VultureJeff8MO
He got more than the vax right. He got the left right. He calls them out for going full communist in his book.
@DrearyElection8MO
Ehhhh I would’ve agreed, I even bought his book, then I looked into him from the past right up to the book, dude’s full lefty.
Then ‘Biden is a decent man’ and having a vaxx mandate at his house…
@VultureJeff8MO
There are three minerals in the race. I’m voting for the one with a brain.
@VultureJeff
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@VulcanMan61Y
No person, even a fetus, has the right to use another person's body without their consent; if you no longer want the fetus to use your body, then you have every right to stop it from doing so, even if that means it dies. That's just what it means to have bodily autonomy: you have the right to decide who can or cannot use your body, at any time, for any or no reason.
@ZealousSquirrel1Y
I'd like to propose a different angle. Let's consider the concept of 'implied consent', which is commonly applied in legal and medical contexts. If you decide to go swimming in the ocean, you're implying consent to the known risks, such as encountering dangerous sea life or strong currents. If a shark attacks you, you can't really hold the shark accountable for infringing on your autonomy. It was a risk you undertook while entering its environment. Similarly, when engaging in an activity that might lead to pregnancy, could one argue an 'implied consent' to the potential of creating a life is given? I'm not suggesting this viewpoint negates the right to bodily autonomy, but might it add a layer of complexity to the discussion?
@VulcanMan61Y
While I understand the idea you're pointing out, I'm unsure how it is relevant to the actual issue. Yes, everyone is well aware that sex likely leads to pregnancy (or at least everyone should understand this, assuming adequate sex education), but that still doesn't change whether or not you should still have the right to bodily autonomy to withdraw that consent. Even if you willingly chose to get pregnant and successfully conceived a child, you would still be completely within your right to withdraw consent at any time and terminate the pregnancy, because the consent to pregnancy does not negate your right to withdraw consent during.
@V0t1ngCicada4MO
If that were the case, shouldn’t the legislature have put it to an immediate vote by the populace after Roe was overturned? Instead they enacted one of the most draconian abortion laws in the US and have fought to keep this amendment off the ballot.
@L3gislatorLollies4MO
Which would be fair to say, if the Supreme Court had not ruled gerrymandering completely legal for partisan political gain. That makes voting “in people that will allow it” much more difficult.
@V0t1ngCicada4MO
And gerrymandering isn't a single party issue. Both take advantage and draw maps to put their party at an advantage. It's up to the courts if there's an issue.
Nebraska Teen Who Used Pills to End Pregnancy Gets 90 Days in Jail
This is so backward. This is what happens when you restrict abortion rights.
@MereLobby1Y
Right to Life has been working had, especially in the red states, to put up barriers to quick, safe, early-term abortions.
@W3lfareCat1Y
Good.
Also, still not relevant to this story. At all.
@MereLobby1Y
So you don’t want access to safe, early abortions, but you’re also upset about situations like this which can happen with those impediments.
That’s cognitive dissonance. Unless you’re advocating the force on women of the religious belief that a zygote is the same as a baby.
Newsom picks Laphonza Butler as Feinstein replacement
@PanickyNomination1Y
She lived in California from at least 2010 until she took the position at Emily’s List in 2021 and relocated for that job. I’ll bet it’s ok under California law for her to move back to California for this interim position. It’s not like she has no ties to the state.
@CheerfulF1libuster1Y
Article 5 section 3 says they are meant to be a resident of the state they are representing at the time of appointment
@PanickyNomination1Y
They are already claiming that only applies to elections. Someone should sue.
Which political ideology do you most identify with?
@VulcanMan611MO
How are you defining "left" vs "right"..? And is your argument solely using an economic scale? If someone was an economic centrist, but was socially and politically far-right, would you still consider them "moderate but not right-wing"? What exactly are you basing your "right-wing" vs "left-wing" positioning on?
Additionally, what do you consider "economic liberty"? Because I would argue that right-wing economics are NOT in favor of economic liberty, since capitalism (a fundamentally right-wing economic system) has an inherent and… Read more
@Patriot-#177611MO
but you did say: "Right-wing people support economic liberty but are in general more willing to see the government spy on its civilians via unconstitutional surveillance, and some rightists subscribe to an interventionist foreign police. Left-wing people support economic tyranny with a massive regulatory bureaucracy but are in general less willing to see the government spy on its civilians, and originally many supported a policy of peace and non-intervention, though sadly this has wavered away in recent years, especially under the current warmongering occupant of the White House..."… Read more
@VulcanMan611MO
I have explained to you what I meant by "economic liberty" so there's no fallacy there, as I have defined my terms and you have defined yours. The true debate should be over why we believe economic liberty is what it is.
Yes that is quite literally the entire point I have been trying to make: our own interpretations of "economic liberty" are entirely subjective, and even largely antithetical to each other's, hence why it is not a useful term to claim categorizes left and right-wing ideological thought. We could both have logically sound reasons as to why we believ… Read more
@Patriot-#1776
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Harris says woman’s death part of ‘consequences’ of Trump abortion actions
@B1llOfRightsMuesli3MO
WHY are you Lying?
There was no abortion ban. She already had the abortion. She had an COMMON abortion complication. You are blaming the hospital who had to deal with yet another abortion clinic complication dump-off. How about blame the abortion clinic?
@GerrymanderHannah3MO
Don't be stupid. She had taken abortion pills at home and it went wrong so she went to the hospital. The hospital waited 20 hours because they should make sure she's close to death before they are allowed to help. If they had done it right away, she would've been fine.
@B1llOfRightsMuesli3MO
The abortion had already taken place the hospital was well within the law to act this is very clear malpractice I hope her family sues the hospital and doctors involved the state law is clear she should have been given treatment these doctors need to be punished!
@B1llOfRightsMuesli
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Pro-life, but allow in cases of rape, incest, or danger to the mother or child
@TruthHurts1011Y
It amazes me how you liberals are so passionate about the defending the lives of murders, rapists, thieves, and drug kingpins from the death penalty while you uphold the murder of the unborn not only as acceptable but as a positive good – even a right. I can’t help but wonder why when the lives of the very worst renegades of society are worth defending, what exempts innocent, faultless children from the same mercy and compassion. When helpless, defenseless, and voiceless babies are butchered by evil “doctors” in the womb, sometimes being torn limb from limb, you’… Read more
@VulcanMan61Y
lol I'm definitely not crying about those "babies" either, because they're aborted and never existed.
More importantly, you are so anti-liberty it is wild. You are an open theocratic authoritarian, who wants to enforce his own religious beliefs and laws onto all of society via violent state force. You want to forcefully enslave women into pregnancy against their will, and you repeatedly admit that you believe private interests deserve the right to take the profits of working men's labor. You have absolutely no concept of what freedom or liberty even is, because you are fundamentally just the Christian version of an ISIS fanatic: dangerously and religiously oppressive and socially authoritarian. It is sad to witness someone so unChrist-like and deranged as you...
@TruthHurts101
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