{"id":3868,"date":"2022-10-07T07:27:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T11:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2022-10-07T07:27:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T11:27:55","slug":"you-can-imagine-why-i-might-not-trust-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3868","title":{"rendered":"You Can Imagine Why I Might Not Trust You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/JPA363.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"406\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/JPA363.jpg\" alt=\"You Can Imagine Why I Might Not Trust You\" class=\"wp-image-3869\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/JPA363.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/JPA363-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Abortion is, of course, a sensitive issue. And even though I may at times relish provoking thoughts and (let&#8217;s be honest) pushing buttons, I decidedly do not when it comes to this topic. People have developed deeply held views that are very personal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But just because something is sensitive doesn&#8217;t mean it shouldn&#8217;t be discussed. As always, you readers can decide for yourselves, but this is my take: Opponents of Proposal 3 have labeled it as radical and extreme. That&#8217;s subjective (and somewhat disingenuous when significant elements of the pro-life movement have used those very words as rallying cries).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I will say is that deciding the legal status of abortion in Michigan via ballot proposal is not great. In a similar way in which <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> was not great, we should be deciding these things through the legislative process. But the reality is, we haven&#8217;t done that. And the chances of us ever doing that are slim to none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, if we as a country couldn&#8217;t get the Equal Rights Amendment passed into law, what are the chances that any legislature (state or federal) is going to be able to handle the abortion issue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So wherever you stand on Proposal 3, don&#8217;t be surprised if the &#8220;other side&#8221; doesn&#8217;t seem to understand you. They probably don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abortion is, of course, a sensitive issue. And even though I may at times relish provoking thoughts and (let&#8217;s be honest) pushing buttons, I decidedly do not when it comes to this topic. People have developed deeply held views that are very personal. But just because something is sensitive doesn&#8217;t mean it shouldn&#8217;t be discussed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3870,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}