Several points on abortion:
A) As far as abortion and the Bible:
The word "abortion" is not mentioned in the Bible, but much in the Bible speaks to the issue. The most obvious passage is from Exodus 21:22-25. This part of the Covenant Code legislates the case of a pregnant woman who becomes involved in a brawl between 2 men and has a miscarriage.
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12 Verses about Abortion - What Does the Bible Say?
Jul 21, 2021 — Bible Verses about Abortion · Psalms 139:13-16 · Exodus 20:13 · Numbers 5:27-28 · Jeremiah 1:5 · Psalms 127:3-5 · Genesis 1:27 · Numbers 5:19-22.
B) Many pro-abortion critics lament the decision of 6 SCOTUS Justices, but they have NO problem about the Roe v. Wade decision made in 1972, made by an ALL MALE Court in 1973.
C) I agree, that for most of the passionate individuals for whom ABORTION is of paramount importance, they see no compromise. But, unlike jimmie-boi, Duk and I would argue that there is at least one position in between.
D) The pro-abortion supporters pushed for abortion on demand and did not want to follow the Guidelines and restrictions placed by the Roe v. Wade decision.
Those demands and the latent anti-abortion contention by many THEN pushed many states to further restrict abortions. The issue of partial birth abortions was found exceptionally repulsive by many Americans.
The Supreme Court's decision to consider the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act has once again pushed the abortion issue into the spotlight.
The law, which was signed by President Bush in 2003 after an eight-year-long congressional fight, prohibits doctors from knowingly performing a "partial-birth abortion," a procedure it defines as one in which the person performing the abortion "deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother."
But "partial-birth" is not a medical term. It's a political one, and a highly confusing one at that, with both sides disagreeing even on how many procedures take place, at what point in pregnancy, and exactly which procedures the law actually bans.
https://www.npr.org/2006/02/21/5168163/partial-birth-abortion-separating-fact-from-spin, NOTE from 2006
E) And that is how we got to NOW. The extremists at one end pushed for more restrictions on abortions and we get an overturn of Roe v. Wade. Up to this point, we essentially had a "compromise" position of abortion up to the first tri-mester.
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision holding that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides a fundamental "right to privacy", which protects a pregnant woman's right to an abortion. The Court also held that the right to abortion is not absolute and must be balanced against the government's interests in protecting women's health and prenatal life.[5][6] The Court resolved these competing interests by announcing a pregnancy trimester timetable to govern all abortion regulations in the United States. During the first trimester, governments could not regulate abortion at all, except to require that abortions be performed by a licensed physician. During the second trimester, governments could regulate the abortion procedure but only for the purpose of protecting maternal health and not for protecting fetal life. After viability, which includes the third trimester of pregnancy and the last few weeks of the second trimester, abortions could be regulated and even prohibited, but only if the laws provided exceptions for abortions necessary to save the "life" or "health" of the mother.[6] The Court also classified the right to abortion as "fundamental", which required courts to evaluate challenged abortion laws under the "strict scrutiny" standard, the most stringent level of judicial review in the United States.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._WadeHere is one point of view on Partial Birth abortions:
On February 28, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will bring the Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act, otherwise known as the Women's Health Protection Act (WHPA, S. 1975), to a vote. This legislation codifies Roe v. Wade's precedent of legal abortion through the entirety of pregnancy. The bill passed the House in September and needs 60 votes in order to pass the Senate. If the bill does pass and is signed into law, it will become the first-ever piece of federal legislation legalizing the killing of an unborn child.
The U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision ruled that abortion is protected under the U.S. Constitution. In doing so, the Court overturned nearly every state-level protection for life in the womb and usurped the power of state legislators to pass laws reflective of their constituents' views in regard to protecting the unborn. Currently, only 17 percent of Americans (including 31 percent of Democrats) agree that abortion should be available to a woman any time she wants one during her entire pregnancy (a view in line with Roe and its companion case Doe v. Bolton). Yet after decades of tyranny under Roe, state and federal efforts to protect the unborn have largely failed. That began to change in 2011 with a wave of pro-life laws.
With Democrats currently in control of the U.S. House, Senate, and White House, no one could have predicted the recent success pro-lifers have had protecting life in the womb. Texas passed the Heartbeat Bill, which protects life in the womb once an unborn child's heartbeat can be detected. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled Texas' law can remain in effect even as litigation challenging the bill remains ongoing. In another Lone Star State victory, Lubbock, Texas, became a sanctuary city for the unborn and the first place in America to completely protect life in the womb since the Roe decision.
Perhaps most importantly, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case, which concerns the constitutionality of Mississippi's Gestational Age Act and pre-viability protections for the unborn. Since the oral arguments in December, many have speculated that the Court will most likely return the issue of legislating on abortion to the states. The Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act is the response of Democrats in Congress.
The Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act is co-sponsored by all but two Democrats. Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.) didn't co-sponsor the bill but did vote to bring it to the Senate floor. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has completely distanced himself from the legislation. This bill embodies the extremism of the Democratic Party platform, which supports abortion through birth.
Bowing to the pro-abortion lobby, Democrats are willing to enshrine a law that would be on par with the abortion policies of notorious human rights abusers China and North Korea instead of one that would be supported by the majority of Americans.
If passed, the legislation would prohibit currently-enacted state legislation that requires the viewing of a fetal ultrasound or detection of a fetal heartbeat before acquiring an abortion. It could undermine existing conscience protections for doctors who do not wish to kill unborn children. It could also eliminate the Hyde Amendment, thereby forcing Americans to fund the atrocity of abortion with their tax dollars.
The Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act notes the evils of white supremacy and anti-Black racism but misguidedly prescribes abortion as the solution. It erroneously argues that the legacy of protections for unborn children has resulted in "enslavement, rape, experimentation on Black women; forced sterilizations; medical experimentation on low-income women's reproductive systems; and the forcible removal of Indigenous children."
Instead of solving the problem of racism, the Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act would further perpetuate the harms wrought on minority populations. Instead of resolving inadequacies in maternal health care, the Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act would allow abortionists to kill a mother's child. Instead of protecting low-income women from medical experimentation, the Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act would create a pipeline of unborn babies to be used for experimentation.
March for Life founder Nellie Grey once said, "[O]n this basic subject of life ... there is no compromise. You're either for or against it. There is no neutrality and there is no in between. You can't have a little bit of abortion." She was right.
https://www.frc.org/updatearticle/20220225/dems-abortion