No matter the issue, 50-50 topics cannot legislatively go fully right or left. Those topics must reach compromise. This is the most highly prominent 50-50 topic we have in the United States, and it is not a topic on which either party should ever be able to claim total victory. That’s not the way a democracy should ever work.
We can, however, find a place of common ground upon which to fight, and I believe I know where it is. No matter the status of abortion, there is a huge demand for it. Nearly 1 in 4 women in the United States will have an abortion in their lifetimes. That is our common ground. Together, we can attempt to reduce the demand. Continuing to fight as we have for so long – with the exact same regurgitated arguments – will not reduce the demand, no matter the legality of the procedure. Working together, instead of seething with anger at our differences, we can reduce the demand. I fail to see how that would not be a positive outcome for all of us.
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