View original postI agree with every word you said here. Obviously not about the economic consequences of moving businesses. All they have to do is hire fewer women, unless you think that's a sticking point for the plutocrats of America But seriously, I don't see companies moving to states with higher taxes solely to get their employees access to abortion. Todd Akin derailed his whole campaign just for trying to equivocate on the issue of abortion in the case of rape. Allowing abortion in that circumstance makes no rational sense, it is purely an argument based on superfluous sympathy for the abortion perpetrator alleged victim. The only legitimate grounds on which to oppose abortion is the theory that a fetus is a human life. If it's not a human life, abortion is a private medical decision and none of the state's business, and being generated in a sexual assault does not affect that at all. Yet, Akin's argument, however stupid on its own, STILL conceded the issue of abortion in the case of rape, and he was considered too extreme. If that's the case with rape, I don't see abortion in the case of legit medical emergencies being banned in even the reddest states. And that's rare enough (600 a year, in a country of 150,000,000 uteri, according an abortion advocacy group) that no one is going to be choosing their residence based on it. Except as a matter of principle and how many people with that kind of principle will voluntarily live in Alabama or Texas anyway?

View original postRegarding the political stance, I welcome removing abortion as an issue, and stripping the GOP of that weapon in their electoral arsenal. Just to be clear, I would applaud someone who killed a doctor to stop an abortion (I mean, to an extent - are abortion doctors really such tough adversaries that you can't restrain them? Obviously there are not many situations where performing a 200th trimester procedure would actually save many fetal lives), and I'm still sick of them hiding behind being the only pro-life game in town while being complicit in the destruction of our civil liberties, confiscation of our property and irresponsible spending. I don't even LIKE babies. I don't get why showing aspiring abortion customers a sonogram of the thing is an effective tactic (or an illegitimate one, as the self-identified pro-choice side maintains). If actual lives were not at stake, I'd cheerfully leave the prosecution of abortion guilt to a Heavenly court.

View original postI linked below an article from a Christian satirical website on the issue.