This was a crossover I didn't see coming! Mallory Mosner and the Black Sheep together? Two of my favorite pages on Substack together? It's like a dream come true! I've followed Mallory for a long time, and I know how thoughtful, open-minded and capable of growth she truly is! I really loved this piece, Mallory! You did such a wonderful j…
This was a crossover I didn't see coming! Mallory Mosner and the Black Sheep together? Two of my favorite pages on Substack together? It's like a dream come true! I've followed Mallory for a long time, and I know how thoughtful, open-minded and capable of growth she truly is! I really loved this piece, Mallory! You did such a wonderful job being nuanced and charting your evolution from someone who was rigidly pro-choice to being able to see the issue in all its complexity! Here's the thing, abortion is seen as a binary issue where one is either for abortion being totally legal or is for abortion being totally illegal. Your law professor back in college really changed you're thinking on this issue for the better forever. You saw that whether women should have the right to bodily autonomy is a separate question from if abortion is technically a cessation of life, should be allowed and to what point in a pregnancy. You than realized this isn't as simple an issue as you first thought it was. Mallory, you brilliantly explain in a clear and concise way how the fetus develops at different stages of the pregnancy and that there are a variety of opinions among Americans as to which trimester abortion should be legal up to. As you astutely point out in the article, even the most staunchly pro-choice people usually scoff at the idea of third trimester abortions. You also do a good job showing there is no agreement among the American public or scientists on when personhood even begins. I agree with you Mallory, the stereotypes on both sides are wrong and the two sides need to start looking beyond the stereotypes of each other and see each other as what they are-good people who just want to protect the sanctity of human life. If people did try to understand where each other were coming from and tried to understand why they believe what they believe and that comes from a place of compassion-this certainly would be a much better country. Most pro-choice people aren't crazy, shrieking, feminist harpies who want to commit mass murder and most pro-life people aren't raging misogynists and foaming at the mouth Christian conservatives who want to keep women down. I myself am pro-choice and believe abortion should be safe, legal and rare. I do however believe that abortion should only be legal up to the first trimester which is statistically when most abortions occur. However, I do support exceptions for rape, incest, the life of the mother, and fetal abnormality beyond the first trimester. I do NOT consider abortion to be murder but rather a moral gray area like physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia and the death penalty. I agree 100% with you Mallory on Planned Parenthood. I too support federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Family planning and access to birth control are both extremely important. I also support teaching comprehensive sexual education in our schools and restoring Roe v. Wade. I'm so proud to have voted for Missouri Amendment 3 that enshrined reproductive rights in our state constitution! All that being said, I too care about life in the womb and will be just as happy if a woman decides to have the baby and raise it. I don't want the unborn baby to suffer or have its life terminated if it's not necessary to do so. I think teaching comprehensive sexual education and funding Planned Parenthood is something we all left, right and center, can agree on is helpful. If Democrats and Republicans supported a bipartisan bill that did both those things it would address everyone's concerns. Abortion would be legal and safe, and women could get the healthcare they need and the numbers of abortions would decrease as people knew how to practice safe sex and had easy access to birth control. As always, I enjoyed reading your amazingly insightful thoughts on the hot button issues of our times, thank you so much, Mallory! I'm so glad you've officially joined the Black Sheep community!
Thank you so much, Noah! A balanced, kind and reasonable comment (as always). Always love hearing your thoughts Thank you for sharing -- it certainly makes me feel hopeful about finding more common ground and nuance!
This was a crossover I didn't see coming! Mallory Mosner and the Black Sheep together? Two of my favorite pages on Substack together? It's like a dream come true! I've followed Mallory for a long time, and I know how thoughtful, open-minded and capable of growth she truly is! I really loved this piece, Mallory! You did such a wonderful job being nuanced and charting your evolution from someone who was rigidly pro-choice to being able to see the issue in all its complexity! Here's the thing, abortion is seen as a binary issue where one is either for abortion being totally legal or is for abortion being totally illegal. Your law professor back in college really changed you're thinking on this issue for the better forever. You saw that whether women should have the right to bodily autonomy is a separate question from if abortion is technically a cessation of life, should be allowed and to what point in a pregnancy. You than realized this isn't as simple an issue as you first thought it was. Mallory, you brilliantly explain in a clear and concise way how the fetus develops at different stages of the pregnancy and that there are a variety of opinions among Americans as to which trimester abortion should be legal up to. As you astutely point out in the article, even the most staunchly pro-choice people usually scoff at the idea of third trimester abortions. You also do a good job showing there is no agreement among the American public or scientists on when personhood even begins. I agree with you Mallory, the stereotypes on both sides are wrong and the two sides need to start looking beyond the stereotypes of each other and see each other as what they are-good people who just want to protect the sanctity of human life. If people did try to understand where each other were coming from and tried to understand why they believe what they believe and that comes from a place of compassion-this certainly would be a much better country. Most pro-choice people aren't crazy, shrieking, feminist harpies who want to commit mass murder and most pro-life people aren't raging misogynists and foaming at the mouth Christian conservatives who want to keep women down. I myself am pro-choice and believe abortion should be safe, legal and rare. I do however believe that abortion should only be legal up to the first trimester which is statistically when most abortions occur. However, I do support exceptions for rape, incest, the life of the mother, and fetal abnormality beyond the first trimester. I do NOT consider abortion to be murder but rather a moral gray area like physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia and the death penalty. I agree 100% with you Mallory on Planned Parenthood. I too support federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Family planning and access to birth control are both extremely important. I also support teaching comprehensive sexual education in our schools and restoring Roe v. Wade. I'm so proud to have voted for Missouri Amendment 3 that enshrined reproductive rights in our state constitution! All that being said, I too care about life in the womb and will be just as happy if a woman decides to have the baby and raise it. I don't want the unborn baby to suffer or have its life terminated if it's not necessary to do so. I think teaching comprehensive sexual education and funding Planned Parenthood is something we all left, right and center, can agree on is helpful. If Democrats and Republicans supported a bipartisan bill that did both those things it would address everyone's concerns. Abortion would be legal and safe, and women could get the healthcare they need and the numbers of abortions would decrease as people knew how to practice safe sex and had easy access to birth control. As always, I enjoyed reading your amazingly insightful thoughts on the hot button issues of our times, thank you so much, Mallory! I'm so glad you've officially joined the Black Sheep community!
Thank you so much, Noah! A balanced, kind and reasonable comment (as always). Always love hearing your thoughts Thank you for sharing -- it certainly makes me feel hopeful about finding more common ground and nuance!