Some of this is correct, but much is sloppy. You can do better. This part is particularly bad:
"The anti-abortion extremists are exactly as irrational as the pro-abortion-up-until-9-months folks."
On the abortion issue, and on most issues, it is extremists - on one side or the other - who are right. The moderates are the irrational ones. Consider the moderates who favored the three-fifths compromise. Or King Solomon, who offered the moderate path of giving half the baby to each claimant. Not rational, not "right". Expedient at best. The right answer is almost always one of the extremes. Those extremists (mainly Southerners, ironically) who argued that a slave was five-fifths of a person were the rational ones, the ones who were right.
There are rational and irrational people on both sides of the abortion issue. And the extremists on both sides are, on average, far more rational than the moderates.
Some of this is correct, but much is sloppy. You can do better. This part is particularly bad:
"The anti-abortion extremists are exactly as irrational as the pro-abortion-up-until-9-months folks."
On the abortion issue, and on most issues, it is extremists - on one side or the other - who are right. The moderates are the irrational ones. Consider the moderates who favored the three-fifths compromise. Or King Solomon, who offered the moderate path of giving half the baby to each claimant. Not rational, not "right". Expedient at best. The right answer is almost always one of the extremes. Those extremists (mainly Southerners, ironically) who argued that a slave was five-fifths of a person were the rational ones, the ones who were right.
There are rational and irrational people on both sides of the abortion issue. And the extremists on both sides are, on average, far more rational than the moderates.
Two videos getting at how I’d respond.
The extreme stances on abortion are absurd by design. Moment 213
https://youtu.be/YFFKlgT5h5E
“It’s complicated and I just don’t know.” Moment 216
https://youtu.be/6zZj50sRXwo