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I am no fan of state policy that turns in woman for getting an abortion...

But in a democracy it begs the question. Why do the majority of woman in Texas support such legislation?

Is Hartman framing this issue in a manner that enables the reader to understand why so many woman support this policy and would it not be better if we had these issues framed in a way that opened the door for compromise?

Normally, compromise is a good thing, even in politics when it can be immensely disappointing, to say the least. But that's how democracies are supposed to work, generally speaking.

But how do you compromise with people who are wholly committed to taking away other people's long-established rights, especially ones so basic as choice, privacy, agency over one's own body, and command over the direction of one's own life, on equal footing with men?

The best way to "compromise" is to vote, vote, vote…

Deep I understand your well placed desire to avoid, at all costs, a Handmaid's Tale dystopia.

That said, when something becomes a "right" and a large percentage of the population opposes it you then force them to fight back with everything they have. For the right this has been a 30+yr battle that has resulted in a SCOTUS now dominated by Handmaids like justices.

In Jamal Green's recent book, How Rights Went Wrong, (he is a Professor of Law at Yale, i think) he argues that issues like civil r…

You mean like what Republicans in Texas are doing? What Republicans on the Supreme Court are doing? What Republicans on Capitol Hill are doing? What Republicans are doing all across America in Republican controlled states -- the minority party shoving their minority religious beliefs down the throat of the majority?

Roe v. Wade WAS the compromise! Well, that didn't work out so well for the majority once the minority view took over SCOTUS. We need a national law to protect the rights of women eve…

Deep The brainwashed zealots you refer to feel the same way about us. So they have incentive to fight for total power given "Rights" like Roe. When we reach compromise neither side has the incentive to kill or be killed.

In Germany abortion is technically not legal, but woman can and do still get abortions and there is no effort to take over their version of our Supreme Court with the kind of Bridesmaid justices we have today. And that is better for all sides than what we have put our selves…

I'm not arguing against compromise; I'm saying that it's foolish to think you can compromise with with shameless liars who don't negotiate in good faith om purpose. The history is clear.

The result is obvious. The Overton Window has been dragged far to the right over the decades because of progressive liberals appeasing religious reactionary authoritarians. What use to be right-wing extremism is now being mainstreamed and normalized.

That's not compromise; that's giving into anti-democratic fasc…

Deep Civil wars are the most damaging. We are all better off toning the rhetoric down so we can find common ground.

I will grant you everything you have said about the GOP. And the more they feel people like you and I are not listening to or respecting their views the more attractive leaders like Trump and Ted Cruz become to their voters.

This is a war where neither side wins.

And it serves the interest of the Corporations that would rather us fight to the death over abortion or WOKE profess…

👎👎👎 History demonstrates quite the opposite: Appeasement is what plays into the hands of the fascist, not resistance. The Looney Tune right and their truly dangerous ides and rhetoric absolutely need to be called out and ridiculed in every way possible. What the goddamn fascist fools on the far, far right must realize is that most people in America viscerally disagree with their radical ideology. Mainstream Republicans are using barely veiled fascism as bait, and their base is swallowing it …