Letâs try this argument with gun control. âWe fully support the right to own guns. We only want to punish anyone who manufactures or sells guns or ammunition.â
Or same-sex marriage. âWe support same-sex marriage. Weâll only jail those who perform them.â
Honestly, I donât think you can compare apples to oranges in this case - guns and marriage are not directly part of my body, where as my uterus is. Plus several others pointed out the way we deal with both prostitution and tattooing of children.
And I wasnât defending the pro-life position (as itâs still rather anti-woman and anti-individual rights), but explicating it.
Sorry; that was aimed at Trump and Republicans, not you.
Oh, no worries⌠I misunderstood is all. But it did give me a chance to clarify myself, so thanks anyways! 
I remember reading somewhere that if you look at the home addresses of women who get abortions (not where they get them, since most travel long distances and even cross state lines), the majority live in red states. We canât criminally penalize women getting abortions because theyâre likely to be from a Republican family. Better to criminalize the Commie-Pinko-Liberal-Death-Doctors, because they vote for Democrats. Two birds with one stone, and all that.
âThere is evidence that within the U.S. strong disparities in religious belief versus acceptance of evolution are correlated with similarly varying rates of societal dysfunction, the strongly theistic, anti-evolution south and mid-west having markedly worse homicide, mortality, STD, youth pregnancy, marital and related problems than the northeast where societal conditions, secularization, and acceptance of evolution approach European norms.â (Aral and Holmes; Beeghley, Doyle, 2002)
When people say they like Trump because he isnât âpolitically correctâ they think heâs sticking it to âthe left.â But he isnât, heâs sticking it to the right-wing establishment who are the real enforcers of political correctness. Iâm not politically correct when I say, âperson with a developmental disabilityâ instead of using a pejorative term, or use âsheâ to refer to a trans woman, Iâm just correct. Trump isnât politically correct, heâs just incorrect. Itâs all those politicians who think the same way as Trump but know that saying it would make them unelectable in the general who are politically correct. Political correctness benefits extremist rightwingers by letting them believe they are the silent majority. If everyone walked around saying what they really think then no one on the Republican slate would have an chance.
As youâve already discussed with others, itâs possible to ban without punishing those getting the service. But even if it entails a punishment for those that seek abortions, âsome form of punishmentâ (in the rambling context presented) is a worrying phrase that makes me think he hasnât thought through what this really means. It means women being put in prison. If he canât say that out loud, maybe he should reconsider his position (which apparently he already did, Iâm just spouting off about my reaction to what he said).
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