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.
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.