Partisan politics

[smoothmoniker]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Please tell me, what is the moderate view on abortion in your mind, and how does it differ from the conservative view?

Parental consent for minors, just like you have to get for every other medical procedure.

Prohibit late-term partial birth abortions

Require pre-abortion counseling to inform the patient of all available options.

All of this things stop well short of the conservative position on abortion, but are more restrictive than the position held by Clinton and others in her party. I think you can consider that to be somewhere in the "moderate" zone.

Abortion is kind of like the death-penalty - nobody on either side of the issue will acknowledge that a moderate position is actually a moderate position. They will attack it as surrendering to the other side on cherished principles.

[jinx]

Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

Parental consent for minors, just like you have to get for every other medical procedure.

There are other medical procedures and treatments for which minors do not need parental consent... VD treatments, blood donations, drug/alcohol rehab etc...

Not that I think minors should be running around getting abortions willy-nilly, just that I don't think legislating morality is a good idea for anyone, even if you can get away with it with minors under the guise of protecting them.

[flaja]

Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

Parental consent for minors, just like you have to get for every other medical procedure.

And if the parent consents, an unborn human being still ends up being murdered.

Prohibit late-term partial birth abortions

Why? If an unborn human is not a living being after 1 day or 3 months or 6 months in the womb, is he or she any more a living human being after being in the womb for 1 day less than 9 months? Why give the unborn the benefit of the doubt after 1 day less than 9 months when you won’t give the same benefit of the doubt after 1 second in the womb?

Require pre-abortion counseling to inform the patient of all available options.

And if the “patient” refuses all other options, an unborn human being still ends up being murdered.