It's amusing to see you descend into madness, ML. I'm merely stating my opinions, same as you.
Here's the part I am having difficulty with. Let's consider for a moment a man who has spent his entire life inside a cave. Not once in his entire life has he stepped outside of that cave and experienced the light of day.
This does not deter the man from stating his opinion about the color of the sky. He insists that the sky is green, and goes on and on about it, insisting over and over again that green must be the color because it is fundamental.
One day, the man is confronted with photos of the deep blue sky. He is then confronted with scientific explanations explaining wave frequencies and wave lengths, laws of defraction, and detailed scientific explanations of why the sky is blue.
Yet when confronted with this mountain of evidence, he is not deterred. He continues to state his opinion that the sky is green.
That is you, Jazzhead.
Fact is, I want to reduce the rate of abortions
I am having a very hard time believing that statement when considering your obstinate insistence that "abortion must remain legal" - based not upon written law, but instead based solely upon your own wishful thinking.
I want to do what I know will WORK - persuasion, support for contraceptives and family planning, support for adoption.
Clearly, that is not working. But even more disturbing is your completely erroneous belief that it is. Family planning? Contraceptives? Tell me how much the abortion rate has fallen since those two got forced down the throats of local schools by the very same tyrants you embrace.
It isn't difficult to find an example that does work. History is a great teacher. And abortion rates were lowest when the citizens of States were still allowed to mold and shape their societies by the enactment of laws through their legislatures. Yet the fact that you reject this outright shows that your claim about wanting to reduce the number of abortion is complete unadulterated bullshit. At the very least, such a claim certainly take a back seat to a society where promiscuity in women is encouraged by mandating an additional safety net that will let you off the hook just in case you happen to knock one of them up.
But hey, if you were honest about it, we wouldn't have to endure all these lies about abortion being a woman's right protected by the Constitution.
What doesn't work is shrieking about banning abortion when it is perfectly clear that the Constitution respects women a hell of a lot more than you do.
Respects women? This ought to be good. Let's see that part of the Constitution that identifies 'respecting women' as providing men with an 18-year financial out after having treated a woman as a sperm receptacle.
I seriously doubt that you have even read the Constitution. Because you surely have no clue as to what it actually says. You simply borrow the word to apply the term 'Constitutional' to back up any thoughts you may have on what government or anybody else should be allowed to do.
IMO you cannot be conservative while disrespecting the individual rights of the citizenry.
You mean like the right of the citizenry to petition their own State governments to formulate laws and set rules on how their society is to be based, per the Constitution of the United States of America?
A woman cannot be forced by the state to reproduce.
Again, you are a liar. No one here is forcing a woman to reproduce. No one. Your statement is 100% false. And you know it to be 100% false. Yet you knowingly and willfully are stating something you know to be false in an attempt to deceive others. That makes you a liar.
Can the abortion right be regulated? Of course - but it cannot be denied.
You clearly have zero understanding of the word 'regulated'. You do not get to be the arbiter of that regulation. Either States have that right, or they do not. You seem to be conceding here that States do have that right. Yet you anoint yourself as having final say over them, just in case you don't like the regulation they implement.
This is what tyrants do.
It has been the law of the land for the entire adult lifetimes of every woman of child-bearing age in America.
Yes, we have been down this road before. This is where you say that abortion must remain legal, yet fail miserably at citing any law at all which says this. All we have is your dictatorial command. No written law. No Constitution. Not even a court case. Nothing but your tyrannical espousal.
There is no going back.
Just like with Plessy v. Ferguson? Sorry, but that argument didn't work for the defendants in Brown v. Board of Education. But it is quite entertaining to see you once again embrace the same arguments as the racist Democrat segregationists of the 1950s.
All I'm saying is that it is time to move on, for the sake of the millions who are aborted each year.
Sorry, your impassioned argument to keep your own personal safety net (just in case) is completely devoid of any legal or lawful substance. Personally, I am not willing to surrender the Constitution of the United States of America just because you suggest I move on.