Originally posted by: rdwoodpecker
Mark, I don’t think your “perception” of conservatives anywhere close to accurate!
Under the conditions of rape and such many many conservatives do not dispute the abortion rights! What I do have a problem with is lazy bastards taking no responsibility to exist.
On the abortion issue my views are not really different than yours.
I think a lot of rank and file conservatives have similar views, but hardly any elected Republicans do. Who could forget the whole make lemonade out of lemons argument, the various types of rape argument where Republicans wanted to know if the victim sufficiently resisted the rape, and that pregnancy never happens from rape because "The female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." These were all arguments put forth by conservative elected officials for not including a rape exception in purposed legislation outlawing abortion.
The reality is if the government shuts all the abortion clinics down because they require them to follow the same standards as a full-blown hospital (that is the current tactic) while not requiring other outpatient facilities or even full-blown surgical centers to do so, there is no rape exception, there is no exception for a child that will be born with severe health problems, and there is no exception where the life of the mother is in danger because there are no places to get an abortion.