>> Because you want them to behave and live in the same way that you do.
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This what I meant about treating the two sides of the argument as somehow equivalent.
I don't think they are - one is about choice, the other is about legislating against a freedom that 60% of Americans want and which they have broadly had for 50 years.
I accept this is nuanced and broadly "the left" tend to think they have they have the moral high ground in every argument, but the same people who want this could well go on to roll back gay rights and marriage, enforcing the sodomy laws (which Texas never repealed but only put in abeyance under Federal compulsion), and even, as has been mentioned, contraception. hence my comparison with the Taliban
Oddly, while a poll says 24% of white evangelical adults think abortion should be legal i.e. permitted in most cases, 56% of Catholics think so.
Around 2/3 of women are pro choice, and looking at opinion by age the figure for women of child bearing age will be somewhat higher.
This is basically old, conservative, white men restricting the rights of women, so add misogyny to the charge sheet. Reductio ad talibanum.
Of course they don't say it's religious but it clearly is, which as I understand it is actually contrary to the constitution anyway.
www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/13/about-six-in-ten-americans-say-abortion-should-be-legal-in-all-or-most-cases-2/
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