(05-09-2022 10:41 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  It's a child. A human child. From the git-go. Calling it by another name, like embryo or fetus, does not change that. Our society has declared that killing it is OK, during certain periods of its development, or for certain reasons, like rape or incest. Since killing it is legal, it is not murder. But it is still the taking of a human life, just like the death penalty, or war. Even war has its rules of engagement. Every legal taking of a human life is subject to limitations of when and how.

I do not want to go back to 1958. I was there. But I don't think we want unrestricted killing of humans of any kind or age. We have to find the middle ground.

I think there are a lot of conservatives like me, both in legislatures and in the voting public.

Not just conservatives. Most PEOPLE share those views.

The devil is in the details -- and legislatures, not courts, are the places for working out details. The folly of Roe was that it usurped that role for the courts.