How have your views on abortion changed over the years? (user search)
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Author Topic: How have your views on abortion changed over the years?  (Read 4331 times)
TJ in Oregon
TJ in Cleve
Junior Chimp
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« on: February 18, 2017, 11:08:36 PM »

Not really. You may be able to drum up some convoluted scenario involving abortion that my junior high self may have been "pro-choice" on that I would  be "pro-life" on today. But that's about it.

Apart from the buzzwords, I would try to ban abortion except to save the life of the mother.

My views have not changed very much.  What has changed is my views of political parties and politicians.  I am much more cynical now.  Sadly, ignorance is bliss.

That's probably a healthy shift. We ought never to make idols out of our politicians or party. Hold on to what is good in your own life first and try to make the small patch of world around you better. If we all did that, our politics would follow in time. Too often we try to do it in the wrong order and think if only the right person got elected all problems would go away, including the one this thread is about. That's one good thing about Trump: it has made some fraction of the "religious right" (generally the non-crazy ones) wake up to the reality that morality was never supposed to be about winning elections in the first place. Granted the word "morality" is probably about the one world less popular than the word "politicians" right now, but that's an example of how we've got our work cut out for us.
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TJ in Oregon
TJ in Cleve
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 8,952
United States


Political Matrix
E: 0.13, S: 6.96

« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2017, 07:36:55 PM »

We also have plenty of men who want a world in which the sexual revolution has happened for men but not for women. These people are, needless to say, deplorable. (Madonna–whore complex, anyone?)

^This is an important point (although it is only tangentially related to abortion) that is lost on a lot of folks who view women as whores but men as studs for sleeping around. I'd (of course) take it a step further and balk at the idea of expecting fidelity on the part of a woman while the man uses pornography.

Also the way pop culture portrays men as lazy sex-obsessed idiots while women actually run everything is not particularly helpful.
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