MGB:_This is an interesting book, however the review says nothing about the logic of Roe v. Wade, the prospects for repealing it and the conservative movement having yet another lost cause with which to turn out voters to Republican candidates. I also saw nothing about supporting additional children born to families or teens, not just with public benefits but with significant tax credits. It is a sigficant question, because at least male pro-lifers object to this because they don’t want to pay for the fertility of other families, in essence they want to regulate fertility by regulating abortion, not protect life.
The other significant question is whether the mother should be punished. The PC answer is no, but the equal protection answer is that a fetus or embryo which is given the legal status of an infant is entitled to having everyone involved in its death punished, including the mother, regardless of why she has the abortion (or who influenced her or is profiting from it, as if abortion were a profitable practice. it is not). If a line on personhood, which could be drawn by Congress under its 14th Amendment power without overturning Roe, would be where that punishment is deemed acceptable. My bet is 25 weeks, but it could be 20.
I have spent quite a bit of time on these questions this year. See the following:
http://xianleft.blogspot.com/2017/12/this-year-on-abortion-and-homosexuality.html
http://xianleft.blogspot.com/2017/11/how-is-life-right-letter-to-pro-lifers.html
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