I look forward to the day that the US becomes as enlightened as the european nations in regards to abortion.
STDs as well, especially teenage transmission rates (sans the UK). The French are rather impressive, but it's a cultural thing. They responsibly address sex, instead we Americans making it about promiscuity, danger and taboo -- totally immature and unsustainable too, with serious health impacts.
Everyone knows abortion is killing. I've never liked a woman who thought otherwise, and they are few and far between. Women who are insensitized to it are going to have it any way, regardless of the law. That's just the reality.
When the state helps women with options, options they can select by choice (and not shouve down their throats), the system works much better. The problem with the right to choose is -- just like on the right to self defense -- you have a lot of ignorant people arguing for things that are just blatantly at odds with science and statistics.
And that's where I take issue. Not only Abortion or the 2nd Amendment, but on the ignorance. And how do we allow that? Because we've allowed ourselves to
argue a media narrative, driven by their interests,
instead of the real issues and problems. We used to not blame the NRA or Planned Parenthood, but now we do.
Why? Media blame, sensationalism, conflict-driven advertising.
The only way to move forward is to opt-out of it all, and discuss the real issues. If we ever did, we could actually tackle the environment, healthcare, immigration, etc... But until then, we're going to argue over things that actually
do not matter at all, actually
do not address the real issues and are 100% media narrative driven now.
I guess that's why I really have as much problem with the Democratic party these days as Trump et al. It's, "We're not Trump" as much as Trump says "Fake News," and to me, I think they'll all a bunch of total idiots who don't remotely have a clue of what the real issues are and -- more importantly -- solutions that we should actually try.
If anything, the last 2 years of President Obama's administration proved that you can do all sorts of stupid crap, and make things far worse -- even if you went 180 degrees from things that weren't working in the 6 years before. And no, I don't mean the economy, because borrowing money always works there ... until you cannot afford to do so any more.
