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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (81432)	7/4/2018 6:25:30 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 356299

My point is that it's a little nonsensical that a person is not to be classified a person unless it can breathe on it own. Acc. to Lane, that's her demarcation......a fetus is not to be considered a person until it can breathe on its own. So if a person stops being able to breathe on its own, does it stop being considered a person? At any rate, you offered the much better scientific demarcation with your post about brain activity. To me this comports scientifically better than does unassisted breathing. This may have changed, but I think all but one of European countries disallow abortion after 20 weeks. This is roughly four months which gives a woman ample room to discover her pregnancy and the abortion could still occur before the development of full brain structure. My sense of things is that a majority of Republicans, maybe small but still a majority, would compromise on abortion if Democrats would put a 20 week cutoff into law. My sense of things is that Republican women are very uncomfortable with the idea of forcing another woman to have a baby they don't want. At the same time, they have a horror of possibly reinstating late-term abortions. Do you think a 20 week cut-off is reasonable and is something Democrats could support? Get the abortion issue settled for once and all.