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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Uh, you've lost sight of which Minnesota law we're talking about here.
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No, it's just that I truly don't see any substantive difference between all of the various approaches that people are taking in this whole fight. They are just incremental tactical advances or defeats in the "abortion should be banned completely"/"abortion should be no business of the state" fight. Any argument that tries to artifically deal with one such regulation in a vacuum is (usually) intentionally deceptive.
I could send you my notes on the hundred-twenty or so judicial permission cases I sheperded and attended and sometimes advocated at, if you need some sort of "my abortion dick's as big as your abortion dick" reference. I can introduce you to friends who have gone through the live-birth-to death fun, and who seem to be equally split between "it was awful" and "we were so glad we got the chance . . .".
This isn't an issue that's going to be helped, on either side, with anecdotes of emotional pain, because both sides have them, and they usually only tend to show that both sides are concerned with emotional pain that specifically helps them prove their own case. It's fun, and it's maybe personally satisfying in that it gives you a warm feeling when demonizing the other side, but something that ONLY polarizes is probably not useful.
