Ok but why should people's bodies and their personal lives (because they already explicitly stated they want to reinstate sodomy laws) be subject to the opinion of the majority??? Since when is it ok for a democracy to dictate what you can do WITH YOUR OWN BODY?

This could boost overall turnout. But people who are motivated to vote based on abortion don’t often cross the aisle and vote for the other side. If you think abortion is baby murder, you’re already not a democrat. If you think restricting abortion is to control women, you’re already not voting Republican. This is evidenced by the lack of change in polling when the draft was leaked.

Also, Texas Beto is not seeing a boost due to guns lol. Campaigning on gun control in Texas is like campaigning on banning abortion and gay marriage in California

Because if you believe the fetus is alive it now involves 2 person's bodies, similar to why a mother can't smother the baby right after its born.

By this logic, if you are in a car crash and unconscious but not badly hurt enough to require blood transfusion, and in the hospital they realize they can only save another car crash victim by hooking up your blood to theirs to give them an emergency transfusion, and then you wake up, then you would legally not be able to say "get this thing off of me, I don't want to give anyone blood, I want to get out of here", because at that point another body's life depends on your own.

I support the idea of banning abortion if the fetus is viable, but before that? That's a totally different scenario. Should you be forced to carry a baby to term if you were raped? If you thought you were using protection but it failed? If you suddenly find yourself in extreme poverty? If the pregnancy is going badly and it could kill you?

Situations like this are unfortunate but personally I feel if a baby is determined to be alive, I don't think it would make sense to kill it just because its father was a rapist. People like that or the person in poverty would just have to give it up for adoption. An abortion to save the life of a mother is justified to me.

It doesn't make sense to kill a baby because its father is a rapist. If the reason abortion is wrong is because it kills a baby, and it still kills a baby when it is from a rape, it doesn't logically make sense to make an exception.

However, talking about rape at all is a red herring, as its just a fringe case pro choice people use to distract from the 99% of abortions that are not due to rape, which they support but are harder to argue in favor of.

I agree, her life could be prioritized over the baby's if her life was in greater than normal danger. But as it is not in the vast majority of cases, the right of the baby to life is important enough to not kill it IMO.

Also no one is trying to force "their beliefs" on anyone in any way that is not normal in a society. If someone believes that society is benefitted by a policy, they have the right to vote for that policy. And if a majority of people oppose that policy, it won't be enacted. All laws "force beliefs about morality" on the people that live under them. If the majority of people elect politicians who like abortion, we'll have abortion and vice versa

So you think murder is OK. In some situations.

I know youre not commenting in good faith but there is a difference between self defense and murder.

So you then admit that all life is not precious, since you're ok with the killing of a baby.

What about forced organ donation? Do you think women should be forced to donate their organ to save their child?

Another horrific shooting. If these keep up, it could lead to more voting against the GOP who blindly renounces any attempt to curb gun violence at the the political level and just calls for even more guns.

I love how the same people that are "pro life" now want to remove access to HIV medication for gay men

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/14/texas-sues-biden-emergency-abortion/

There is not a single good republican.