Originally Posted by Richard Davis
**My guess is there is a fairly significant portion of society who would support those laws which make sure that lobsters and shrimp don't feel pain and they support the enforcement of those laws, while simultaneously having or holding the belief that it is an inherent woman's
right to kill their baby at any time in the 39 week gestational period.
And if you don't believe that statement above, then I would tell you that you might just be the most naive human being I know.
The percentage of those who do hold the belief above (**) could be argued but they exist and they aren't just a few out there.
39 weeks is
full term. The number of people who are ok with abortion at full term is vanishingly small.
Out of that vanishingly small number, there are two subsets: (a) sociopaths like Gosnell who actually enjoy killing babies. Are there hundreds or even thousands of baby-killing sociopaths out there? I suppose. There are lots of mass murderers too. Hitler was a real guy. Fortunately, this is a tiny cohort of truly evil individuals.
And (b) People who tolerate
no restrictions on abortion because they buy into the slippery slope arguments. There are lots of slippery slope gun rights people too, all of whom endorse
no regulation no matter how rational because of the fear that a rational regulation leads to an overstepping regulation. Do the "slippery slope" absolutists actually think it is fine and dandy to dismember a full term baby? In the huge and overwhelming majority of cases the answer is "of course not."
