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Originally Posted by ziggytrix
As far as state regulation goes, it is an economically unfair practice, since someone who can afford a plane ticket can just go to a state where what they want is legal. But our US Constitution is based on States' Rights so I manage to cope with it.
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This is what Preechr and I were saying, and if I believed that it was a woman's inherent right to have an unfettered abortion, then I would be in agreement with you. I don't believe in that right however, I simply acknowlege the current law.....see!?
I think you made the point earlier that this is an irreconcilable moral issue. I guess that's true, which is sort of the reason I don't think it's an entitlement. However (and this is sort of in step with Preechr), we aren't free to do whatever we want to our bodies. There is precent is state and federal law which sets limitations on what we can do to ourselves. The level of access a woman has to abortion should be left to the states, and should reflect the mood of the people. I would PERSONALLY then like to see groups like PP take to the state houses, and try to improve services at that level. That would be fun, and IMO, more democratic. States like Ohio, for example, have spent money investing in programs to decrease their pregnant teenage population. I'd like to see that happen at the state level, too.
You wouldn't want a constitutional ban, or congressional edict, on a moral isue like gay marriage, right???
Preech, you made a comment earlier that PP and groups like that would do their hardest work (or already are) in the states that are least friendly to abortion. I think that's interesting, although I'd be willing to wager that they aren't. Roe has made these organizations lazy. They don't need to appeal to real people in real states, because they can simply raise cash off their website and at dinners from big donor liberals.