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Originally posted by Optimist Prime
If you're against abortion, don't have one. I think it is very bad manners for anyone to bring up and make into public issue what is a very serious and private choice for a lady to make. This is America, and you have your right to whatever opionion you may wish to take on any subject. But you do not have the right to tell someone else how to live their own life. That is a private matter, morallity aside, and is protected by the Ninth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. To try and change the Constitution is, above all else, thoroughly unpatriotic.
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This is the 9th Amendment of the US Constitution:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Do you see a "right to privacy" in there? This right to privacy comes from (I believe) Roe v. Wade. Many folks including legal scholars believe that decision didn't interpret existing law -- in created new law.
Roe v. Wade would not make it instantly illegal for people to have abortions. It would simply give states the right to impose bans on abortions.
Now, personally on this issue I usually don't know where I stand, pro-lfe, pro-choice. I see the practical arguments for abortion. On the other hand, I do acknowledge that depending on your definition of when life begins you're destroying a life or a potential life (murdering).
However, with this late term abortion stuff... We have the medical technology to take premature babies of the age that this law applies to and allow them to survive and be normal babies. At that point, if a child can survive outside the womb (even assisted by medical technology), I fail to see how you could not call this murder.