Even as a Dem I agree. I feel like the politicization of this issue has made it very all or nothing when I think there is a reasonable moral and scientific debate to be had. If it were up to me, I would allow all abortions up to the first trimester, and then only medically necessary abortions after that including if the fetus is not viable. Medically necessary abortions should be covered whereas elective abortions should not.
The debate is over though ini scientific and philosophical communities, if you read into it. Almost all late term abortions are medically necessary. People don't generally get "elective" late term abortions, because vacating a baby corpse from your body is painful and dangerous. Any notion otherwise is just yet another conservative delusion masquerading as an opinion worth respecting. But just like I dgaf about climate deniers or election truthers, I see no need to engage (in false faith) with the GOP on an issue they either don't understand or lie about.
It's cruel. It's disingenuous. I'lll have a reasonable, moderate debate on the issue with pro-lifers when they decide to be "pro life" about any other topic. But while they remain committed to ransacking the biosphere, letting cops kill at will, and letting babies die in cages on the border, it's futile. The idea that it's "just an opinion" to force a woman to carry a dead fetus to term is the same kind of logic that says "it's just an opinion" to let oil companies lie about carbon for decades, dooming us all. It's not "just an opinion," it's a lie or a delusion and those have no place in democratic discourse
