Abortion is nuanced though. Opinion polling on abortion mirrors an issue like gun control--wide majorities think it should be legal but favor some restrictions (no machine guns or grenade launchers).
In other words a lot of people are perfectly fine with abortion at 12 week but grow increasingly uneasy as the fetus approaches the seven month mark.
Abortion is nuanced though. Opinion polling on abortion mirrors an issue like gun control--wide majorities think it should be legal but favor some restrictions (no machine guns or grenade launchers).
In other words a lot of people are perfectly fine with abortion at 12 week but grow increasingly uneasy as the fetus approaches the seven month mark.
Ironically, because at least up through Aquinas and Augustine, the standard for тАЬensoulmentтАЭ was the тАЬquickeningтАЭ around (give or take) 14 weeks.
I mean itтАЩs not that they were exactly co-signing abortion before that phase, but it was considered a much lesser transgression. There were shifts back and forth in the Middle Ages depending on the pope (i.e., kind of like now).
Abortion is nuanced though. Opinion polling on abortion mirrors an issue like gun control--wide majorities think it should be legal but favor some restrictions (no machine guns or grenade launchers).
In other words a lot of people are perfectly fine with abortion at 12 week but grow increasingly uneasy as the fetus approaches the seven month mark.
WRT birth control I have to point out that the most prominent example in terms of banning its use is from the Catholic Church.
Ironically, because at least up through Aquinas and Augustine, the standard for тАЬensoulmentтАЭ was the тАЬquickeningтАЭ around (give or take) 14 weeks.
That's interesting. The comments section here is wonderful because I commonly learn stuff that I did not know before.
Also: "There can be only one!"
Oh damn, I did not know a new Highlander was dropping
I mean itтАЩs not that they were exactly co-signing abortion before that phase, but it was considered a much lesser transgression. There were shifts back and forth in the Middle Ages depending on the pope (i.e., kind of like now).