lol....of course you can "neatly sidestep" if you completely ignore the issue.....apple believes society is incapable of deciding when an abortion should be permitted due to the mother's health......that was the standard throughout America's history up until Roe v Wade....it should amaze us all that civilization did not crumble over the inherent uncertainty.......
We know why civilization didn't crumble. People obeyed authority regardless of the asinine dictates. People were conditioned to believe they didn't know, or were incapable of understanding, the reasons.
Those days are gone. I would say the turning point was the 60s. From a reality where a person refusing to fight for their country was summarily shot to thousands refusing to obey government enlistment the people stood up and started to question government/authority on everything, including abortion.
Woman's rights. Gay rights. The people wanted answers, not dictates from authority.
The clock will never turn back. There was a change of consciousness no less than the 1600s coming out of the Dark Ages.
As for believing "society is incapable of deciding when an abortion should be permitted due to the mother's health" the point is health should not be a consideration unless we're talking about certain death and even in those cases if the fetus can survive with the woman on life support until the birth occurs what makes the woman's life more important than the life of the fetus, assuming of course, both are human beings?
To kill an innocent human being so as to prevent damage to another individual, an individual who, directly due to their already defective body, may sustain further damage, is the most absurd conclusion one can draw.
Unfortunately, that is the conclusion society has drawn and expects rational people to accept. That, too, shall pass.
