The stance puts Kennedy — who’s mounting long shot bid to unseat President Joe Biden as the Democratic standard bearer in 2024 — out of step with most of his party.
The stance puts Kennedy — who’s mounting long shot bid to unseat President Joe Biden as the Democratic standard bearer in 2024 — out of step with most of his party.
Ok this is the line. This is where we will clearly be able to see if the media chooses to uncritically prop up an old guard power player for ratings and clicks. Proposing any sort of restriction on abortion will demonstrably harm people and should be the definitive end of this man’s campaign — but I’m betting it won’t be. Remember when the 2016 Libertarian candidate (Johnson) didn’t know what “Aleppo” was and his campaign ended right then and there because he said something demonstrably stupid? That should have happened to Trump and it didn’t. That should have happened to RFK with his vaccine trash and it didn’t. The fact that he hasn’t been laughed out of the room by the media already does not say good things about the 4th estate, much less the critical thinking skills of the average American voter.
Even under Roe V Wade, there were restrictions on abortion. Very few people would support 39-week abortions.
Except a 39 week abortion likely doesn’t exist in the way that you are suggesting. At that point, if a pregnancy needs to be ended, which is exactly what an abortion is, they induce labor.
Anyone who thinks a woman would take 39 weeks of back pain, morning sickness, nothing-fitting, name-deciding, crib-building, baby-proofing, horny-angry-sad mood swings to decide she doesn’t want to have a child is someone who’s opinion on literally anything can safely be ignored.
Or in a more coherent way: women don’t have third-trimester abortions because they want to.
Why, exactly, should abortion be regulated separate from any other medical procedure? I would guess the vast majority of answers are based in an ideology with patriarchal underpinnings, where the fate of women is the business of the male-dominated state.
The vast majority of abortions in the 3rd trimester are medically necessary, often heartbreaking affairs. Roe was an antiquated compromise decision and should not be seen as a template for what is acceptable in a supposedly pluralistic society that honors the freedom of individuals to make their own decisions about their own bodies.