{"id":1365,"date":"2008-11-14T16:10:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T20:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2008-11-14T16:10:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T20:10:40","slug":"the-thing-with-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/11\/14\/the-thing-with-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thing with Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to sit the abortion debate out, since it ultimately comes down to when you believe human life begins. Despite what some try to paint it as, I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s anyone who thinks that, at 8.5 months old, the baby isn&#8217;t a baby. (And, in fact, Roe v. Wade doesn&#8217;t allow abortions then.)<\/p>\n<p>But a few points that drive me crazy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>The President can&#8217;t overturn Roe v. Wade, since Presidential powers don&#8217;t include overturning Supreme Court cases.<\/li>\n    <li>We&#8217;ve had what many consider to be a very conservative President for 8 years. Roe v. Wade stands.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2008\/11\/14\/national\/main4603110.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4603110\">Some conservatives are freaking out<\/a> about how Obama is &#8220;the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president.&#8221; Besides the fact that I&#8217;m not sure where he&#8217;s getting his facts, what could Obama do? Allow third-trimester abortions? Allow abortions three months after birth? All he could really do would be to keep status quo, which has been in place for something like 20 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My point isn&#8217;t that women should or shouldn&#8217;t have the right to have abortions. My point is that 98% of people who talk about the issue don&#8217;t seem to get it. Abortion isn&#8217;t really up to the President. Abortion is legal (within some sane boundaries). And, after eight years of conservative rule, abortion not only remains legal, but it hasn&#8217;t even been challenged. So before you go praising or condemning Obama (or any other politican) for their stance on the issue, consider whether they&#8217;re really any different than the status quo.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to sit the abortion debate out, since it ultimately comes down to when you believe human life begins. Despite what some try to paint it as, I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s anyone who thinks that, at 8.5 months old, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/11\/14\/the-thing-with-abortion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}