I come from a pretty streight-line Conservative background, though as I've grown older a lot of my beliefs have shifted toward the center. As a general rule with social issues, I don't care what other people do as long as it doesn't affect me. The only huge exception to this has been abortion, which I've never been able to stomach.
Don't get me wrong, I can see the appeal of it. It's the easiest way out of a massive consequence. Still, I was never one of those people who could see a fetus as anything other than a person, or at least, the inevitability of a person. I would see these statistics about how every year in America nearly as many babies were aborted as soldiers were lost in all our wars combined. I would see how few of these abortions were attributed to rape or health issues, and yet that was the first thing thrown at me if I ever said I was pro-life.
I've been called a bigot, science denier, woman-hater, bible-thumper, misogynist, etc. All for my inability to see that unborn baby as a clump of worthless cells. Now, as an adult with a family and a job I'd prefer to keep, I can't even make that view public. For years I've had to shut the fuck up and try not to think about it, because it would only depress me.
When Biden tweeted out about this right being taken from so many Americans who valued it, he neglected to mention the surprisingly large number of people like me who've watched this go on since the 70s and have never been able to see it as anything other than a reprehensible injustice.
If the need for an abortion is that great, then people shouldn't have a problem hopping state lines to get it. Otherwise, I hope this will deter people from being so reckless. Even if so many people are losing their shit over this, it kinda warms my heart after all this time.