Constitutionally and, thus, legally, abortion is a states’ issue.
Morally, abortion is an individual’s issue.
God help those who kill their own infants.
“Every enlightened thinker...”
Just what does NYT believe to be an “enlightened thinker”?
Enlightened thinkers come in many forms and varieties, and it may be compared to “critical thinking”. Apparently there is not supposed to be ANY alternative entertained, according to the groupthink that NYT seems to want to impose on all discourse on the matter.
Abortion was supposed to be “safe, legal and RARE”, which was part of the rationale for adopting Roe v. Wade in the first place. “Legal” it became, but in many instances in the practice, it also became unsafe, with a 50% mortality rate (the baby dies in almost every instance, plus some few mothers do not survive the procedure) and WAY too common.
Abortion may only peripherally considered to be a form of birth control, especially when so many other forms are much safer and and widely available. Abortion perhaps should be considered in the same light as body mutilations involved in an evil practice mislabeled as “transgender transformations”. In many instances, abortion results in sterility, as do most of these operations and hormone treatments that are supposed to “transform” male to female, or vice versa. The only transformation possible is male to neuter, or female to neuter, unable to reproduce.
And that may be the whole objective, to minimize or destroy the capability to reproduce.