>The abortion debate has evolved into another of the all-or-nothing, uncompromising dialogues that are so prevalent across most of Western Civ these days.<
This is one the few political issues that actually is all-or-nothing. Human beings are human beings, period. Destroying innocent human lives is never okay, no matter how much other people might feel that the existence of those lives inconveniences them.
You can actually have some kind of "moderate" position on a lot of other things--thinking that different amounts of immigration should be allowed, thinking the tax rates should be set at different levels, et cetera. But not everything can be a compromise and some things shouldn't be up for a vote.
>Many of us, including me, want fetal age to be considered as a limiting factor on abortion access. I can see how a woman could be in the third trimester of a pregnancy before she seeks out an abortion, but unless there is a risk to her physical health in going through the remainder of the pregnancy and birth, I don't think that she should be able to get an abortion at that point.<
Why? What makes the third-trimester child a human being and the first-trimester child not one?
>They will also lose voters who truly believe in the separation of church and state. Both the so-called left and the so-called right are now wedded to anti-democratic religions, and neither party can afford to lose the support of its religious fundamentalists.<
This is a misunderstanding derived from imbibing nothing but liberal propaganda, free from even the tiniest iota of critical thinking. The pro-life position is that murdering children is wrong. Atheists also agree that killing innocent children is bad, or at least, one would think they do. Religion has nothing to do with it. The only point at issue is who counts as a human being, and why. This can be observed scientifically and has no need for religion, even though the "religious fundamentalists" you reference do happen to have the correct viewpoint on the issue.
But the fact that people who go to church believe something does not mean that it is necessarily true, or necessarily untrue. People who go to church also believe that rape is wrong. They happen to be right about this. You don't sit around trying to debate them about it because "well, your God might say rape is wrong, but I don't believe in your God, so to me rape is fine!" That would be insane. Yet cultural elites have successfully taught people to think this way about abortion.
>The abortion debate has evolved into another of the all-or-nothing, uncompromising dialogues that are so prevalent across most of Western Civ these days.<
This is one the few political issues that actually is all-or-nothing. Human beings are human beings, period. Destroying innocent human lives is never okay, no matter how much other people might feel that the existence of those lives inconveniences them.
You can actually have some kind of "moderate" position on a lot of other things--thinking that different amounts of immigration should be allowed, thinking the tax rates should be set at different levels, et cetera. But not everything can be a compromise and some things shouldn't be up for a vote.
>Many of us, including me, want fetal age to be considered as a limiting factor on abortion access. I can see how a woman could be in the third trimester of a pregnancy before she seeks out an abortion, but unless there is a risk to her physical health in going through the remainder of the pregnancy and birth, I don't think that she should be able to get an abortion at that point.<
Why? What makes the third-trimester child a human being and the first-trimester child not one?
>They will also lose voters who truly believe in the separation of church and state. Both the so-called left and the so-called right are now wedded to anti-democratic religions, and neither party can afford to lose the support of its religious fundamentalists.<
This is a misunderstanding derived from imbibing nothing but liberal propaganda, free from even the tiniest iota of critical thinking. The pro-life position is that murdering children is wrong. Atheists also agree that killing innocent children is bad, or at least, one would think they do. Religion has nothing to do with it. The only point at issue is who counts as a human being, and why. This can be observed scientifically and has no need for religion, even though the "religious fundamentalists" you reference do happen to have the correct viewpoint on the issue.
But the fact that people who go to church believe something does not mean that it is necessarily true, or necessarily untrue. People who go to church also believe that rape is wrong. They happen to be right about this. You don't sit around trying to debate them about it because "well, your God might say rape is wrong, but I don't believe in your God, so to me rape is fine!" That would be insane. Yet cultural elites have successfully taught people to think this way about abortion.