Blue3
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« on: August 25, 2015, 05:47:55 PM » |
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« edited: August 25, 2015, 05:50:26 PM by Blue3 »
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A hundred years from now (probably after we're dead, if average life expectancy doesn't dramatically change)... what will be the status of Abortion?
It's one issue that hasn't gone away, even after people thought it was settled law, decades ago. People remain divided, with only the occasional, little swing one way only to reverse itself before long. People can't really seem to agree if it will ever have a solution, an "end" to the argument.
But a hundred years is a long time. *Could have another religious awakening, for traditional beliefs. *Could have the atheist, pro-science crowd become pro-life, due to deeper understandings of neuroscience and human consciousness that weren't entirely expected. *Could have liberal and libertarian activists become pro-life due to an expanding legal definition of personhood that by the 22nd century includes several non-human animal species and maybe even some advanced AI, as well as transhuman hybrids. *Could have a pro-choice religious awakening, one that has the denominations/religions on the rise in that day change their stance to pro-choice, a new "feminist" mainstream religious movement. *Could have an increasingly atheist and pro-choice demographic. *Could have a huge influx of pro-life immigrants, as refugees from global climate change. *Could have a near-utopian society where nearly every problem is solved, but disagreements on values still divide Americans, and the most divisive one is still abortion. With economic and foreign policy concerns a thing of the past, the social issues that the country is still divided on is now the only thing left to debate and talk about, creating just more bitter resentment and division with the country nearly on the brink of another civil war over it, and abortion is still at the center. *Could still be a very divisive issue, but compared to the other huge problems the country is facing, hardly anyone even brings it up in even politics anymore, and maybe no longer even corresponds evenly with the parties.
We don't know. But we can speculate.
What do you think will be the legal and political status a hundred years from now? Will it be settled? What will the general atmosphere around it be? Would it still be big in politics, including presidential litmus tests for each candidate?
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