The issue from my perspective is that everyone wants their moral perspective enshrined in federal law.
Morality does not come from the top (i.e. law) down. Morality is defined by the culture and laws are created to align with that culture.
The divided states does not have a common culture that can support the overbearing federal government the country has today. The only answer is to get morality out of the federal government and have states and ideally communities define laws based on their culture.
Assume that their is a path to keep the broken federal government and constitution is the definition of insanity. Doing the same thing and expecting different results. Its no wonder the country is going insane.
"The issue from my perspective is that everyone wants their moral perspective enshrined in federal law."
Yeah, I think this is broadly the problem. What needs to be enshrined in law, especially on issues like this, is tolerance. I understand people who feel a moral objection to abortion. I just don't think they should be able to dictate, on purely moralistic grounds, how other people get to live their lives.
So if the argument is that it should be illegal to get an elective abortion at 6 months because the baby objectively an independent lie form at that stage, I can get behind that. But if it's that abortion should be illegal in all cases because "my friend in the sky says so" that's a different matter.
The issue from my perspective is that everyone wants their moral perspective enshrined in federal law.
Morality does not come from the top (i.e. law) down. Morality is defined by the culture and laws are created to align with that culture.
The divided states does not have a common culture that can support the overbearing federal government the country has today. The only answer is to get morality out of the federal government and have states and ideally communities define laws based on their culture.
Assume that their is a path to keep the broken federal government and constitution is the definition of insanity. Doing the same thing and expecting different results. Its no wonder the country is going insane.
"The issue from my perspective is that everyone wants their moral perspective enshrined in federal law."
Yeah, I think this is broadly the problem. What needs to be enshrined in law, especially on issues like this, is tolerance. I understand people who feel a moral objection to abortion. I just don't think they should be able to dictate, on purely moralistic grounds, how other people get to live their lives.
So if the argument is that it should be illegal to get an elective abortion at 6 months because the baby objectively an independent lie form at that stage, I can get behind that. But if it's that abortion should be illegal in all cases because "my friend in the sky says so" that's a different matter.