I'm not angry but I am saddened that both sides are highlight by the media as the radical ends of the spectrum. I do think it should be promoted as a common goal for each side to limit late term abortions and to make mid term abortions needed and indeed unwanted due to better social circumstances for both mothers and children. I don't think it's lip service to have this viewpoint evolve in me as it has. However, I still do also think it's very important as a society for us to legally establish personhood at some point in time prior to birth...not to punish women in that position, but to make it clear that the nation stands for life as we scientifically know it to be for all persons, at that time established by science and law, which hopefully would enable women and men to make better choices with sex in the first place reducing even further this issue. I don't disagree and am not happy with either extreme and the on my side it's been pretty bad just as it is the other extreme side...and all it's done is cause political discord and not fixed the problem...my hope, which I know is unlikely with the current state of politics, is that the two sides can come together and make compromise. This because I/we love our nation and all persons in it.
I truly believe you are conflicted and compassionate about tough decisions that women and families have to make. I’ve said it before and I’ll take it w me.
If we as a nation truly value life we will do everything possible to value life and protect it at all costs. That means we make sex education a must. Contraception is available free at all schools and colleges. Churches quit w the smoke machines, light shows and fancy coffee shops and raise money to take in single moms or dads and foster kids in their church families. No more elaborate buildings w gyms and indoor playgrounds. Prenatal care is free as is daycare and health care until a child is 18. Mandatory public Ed starts at 2. No more vouchers for private schools. Figure out ways to improve underperforming schools like getting rid of dead weight and paying better teachers more to move into these districts. Increase funding for all pre k - 12th grade w free after school care. Poverty kills an estimated 150,000 people per year per some estimates.
Childbirth is free as is the entire adoption process for all parties.
Smoking tobacco is against the law. 2nd hand smoke kills thousands per year. I know. It killed my mom and sister.
Speed limits are returned to 60 mph. Saves lives and gas. Mandatory minimum MPG on non commercial vehicles. Incentivize point of return vehicle conversion to electric (think UPS).
Climate change is taken seriously by both sides. Not the extreme like AOC or ignore it like some on the right. Raise gas mile standards. Put return fees on all plastic consumables just like we have w car batteries.
Sr citizen care is free as is their nutrition and health care.
We pass Medicare for all and keep private insurance as an item that companies and individuals can purchase on top of Medicare for all (similar to Medicare advantage).
I’m not saying the government has to pay for or control all of this but if we truly value all lives then we have to meet each obstacle w common sense and push through barriers.
Otherwise we really aren’t pro life. Just anti something.