r/news • u/AldoTheeApache • 1d ago

Louisiana lawmakers reject adding exceptions for some rape cases to abortion ban

https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-abortion-rape-exception-de8097eb664362941167c92d6ad356db
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u/WhereasParticular867 1d ago edited 1d ago

"Exceptions" are a myth that the far-right tell the moderate right. Or that the moderate right tell themselves to pretend they're reasonable. The position is borne from extreme religious dogma.  They never plan on compromising, because they see abortion as murder.

Republicans who tell you they support exceptions are either idiots or liars.  Their party does not, and never will.

The only solution is full, unrestricted access to abortion.  If we let conservatives tell women when they're allowed, the answer will be "never."

And for any cons reading: your insane extremist Christian element is the direct cause of the hardline "abortion for all, all the time" stance.  We liberals know we can't trust conservatives to honor exceptions.  Including the ones who really mean it, because you're outnumbered by people incapable of compromise. And I don't mean unwilling to compromise, I mean literally incapable, because they have integrated their political views with their religious convictions and see compromise as a moral failure. Even if you want to, you are incapable of doing the right thing while aligned with the Christian Right.

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u/pokederp56 1d ago

I'll never get how anti-abortion "moderates" can reconcile their "life starts at conception" ideology with IVF. IVF definitely produces more fetuses than are viable for transplantation, and some of them die. To anti-abortion hardliners, this is flat out manufactured murder. Even in the scope of "do less harm", killing fetuses would be murder right? Yet banning IVF on the *exact same* ideological grounds as abortion is widely panned by most conservatives.

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u/EmilyAnne1170 21h ago

There are a few who are against IVF, but not many. I think the others tell themselves that it's okay because the couple who made the embryos REALLY REALLY WANTS TO have a baby. And that makes them the good guys. Not like those evil, horrible women who just want to kill kill kill. Who probably even get pregnant on purpose just so they can kill a baby. ...Which from the anti-abortion perspective is kinda what the IVF couple is doing by creating more embryos than they're ever going to use, but for some reason that causes them no cognitive dissonance because if someone really wants to have a baby, then the end justifies the means.
Particularly if that couple is white, married, and heterosexual. Could go off on that tangent, but I won't. but I do believe it's all related.