"You may be right that limits may be placed on when an abortion can be obtained."
For the women in my life, abortion rights are important rights. Having the government restrict their access to this safe, legal medical procedure is a scary invasion of state power into the doctor-patient relationship.
I care about the women in my life, so when they care about access to abortion, I care about it in sympathy.
"... diabetics will not be able to afford their medication, etc."
Before the ACA, I was uninsurable, thanks to having had my gallbladder out several years prior. "Pre-existing condition." The ACA allowed me to buy health insurance again.
If they repeal that, I'm likely to lose access to the U.S. health care system.
That scares me, personally.
Lots of things about this are scary, because they affect my life and the lives of people I care about.
Abortion is a safe, legal medical procedure. Access to abortion is every woman's right. The SCOTUS has affirmed that the US constitution guarantees this.
"Safe for who?" For the woman, who is the person getting the procedure.
People who argue from the fringe view that "life begins at conception" and "a fetus is a human being" often bring in a lot of other fictions about abortion, like that it isn't safe for women, that it's murder, whatever.
It isn't.
It's also none of your business what other women do with their bodies or with their doctors. Wishing that it was your business (or telling fantasy stories based on your fringe views) does not make it so.
So mention this when you argue with such a person, or someone who specifically argues these points.
I did not argue that "life begins at conception". As for "a fetus is a human being":
A fetus is: "an unborn or unhatched offspring of a mammal, in particular, an unborn human more than eight weeks after conception"
Hence, a fetus is not "at conception", but at least 8 weeks later. According to Wikipedia on US law: "Viability is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks, approx. 196 days) but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks"; In other words, a fetus may be aborted 24-28 weeks after conception; Arguing that a fetus in this range is a human being is not a fringe view among those who look into the issue, or at least that a fetus might be a human being (it's possible that we don't know enough about human development in the womb to decide).
> It's also none of your business what other women do with their bodies
What women do to the bodies of fetuses is the issue here. A woman who murdered her unborn, viable child would be charged with muder despite it concerning "what she did with her body".
> Wishing that it was your business (or telling fantasy stories based on your fringe views)
For the women in my life, abortion rights are important rights. Having the government restrict their access to this safe, legal medical procedure is a scary invasion of state power into the doctor-patient relationship.
I care about the women in my life, so when they care about access to abortion, I care about it in sympathy.
"... diabetics will not be able to afford their medication, etc."
Before the ACA, I was uninsurable, thanks to having had my gallbladder out several years prior. "Pre-existing condition." The ACA allowed me to buy health insurance again.
If they repeal that, I'm likely to lose access to the U.S. health care system.
That scares me, personally.
Lots of things about this are scary, because they affect my life and the lives of people I care about.