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Originally posted by Eclipse
Exquisite%, I agree with about 99.5% of what you had to say!  Good post.
I do have a question about this statement though
Can you explain to me your views on how abortion is/should be a constitutionally protected right? Please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't it against the law to kill yourself (euthenasia sp?)? How are the 2 different? I'm no legal scholar, so speak to me as if I were in the 3rd.....ok 6th....grade. Thanks!
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I personally kinda think abortion is killing, I think. Can you tell I am actuallly undecided on that? Only because I am not sure I believe you can kill something that can't live on its on. To me that is different from Euthanasia because those people are alive and will continue to live until they die. This is why Euthanasia is illegal, but removing someone from life support is not, maybe its not exactly why, but that is my understanding of it.
So with that said, legally speaking abortion has been determined by the High Court to be a "family issue." The court has historically deemed "family issues" to be protected by the Bill of Right's inherent right to privacy. I understand the analysis to kind of be the gov't can't make you have kids or not have kids (like China) so since the baby can't live on its own its not really killing and therefore gov't can't place
undue burden on access to abortion. The gov't is not req'd to support abortion, only to not make it unduly hard to get one. The living/not living debate is key to the abortion issue which is why many states place trimester limitations on abortion, especially as more and more babies are saved upon being bore prematurely.
Earlier I shoudn't have said that I think abortion is murder. I think for me personally I am on the fence as to what it is because a 3 wk old baby clearly can't survive on its own outside of the womb and hence at that point to me, aborting a baby is
almost akin to taking someone off of life support. But, as I said almost I'm not completely sure- which is why
in my life I won't have an abortion because I don't know if I think its killing or not.
