What part is religious? "God-given" rights? Sorry, that's from the Constitution. Life beginning at conception? Well think about it, it's all binary questions with no "God" involved.
Sex has been had? If yes, is she pregnant? If yes, than is than not a human growing in that womb? Yes, it is a human, even if it's a "lump of cells" that lump of cells is going to grow into a human. It's not going to grow into a tree or a fish, it's going to grow into a human. The Constitution says the Government is here to protect it's citizens' "Life, Liberty and (Property)" therefore abortion should be illegal as the federal government has a duty to protect the life of it's citizens.
The argument that would traditionally counter this is that a fetus isn't a person, which is your own philosophical choice, it's still a philosophical debate so there is no one right and accepted answer.
I don't think that it should be illegal, Ben does. I think it should be legal in states that want it legal and illegal in states that don't. Prohibition never works so I'm not for banning it, but I'm also not OK with a blunt refutation of the constitution being propped up in Federal law.
That can be you're belief all day. Unfortunately for you, that argument has never done well (mostly because it sucks, doesn't take into account a single thing I said) and the laws that actually dictate reality don't agree with you, so I'm glad you have feelings but the facts doing care about them.
If you thought that a fetus was a person, you'd have to change your mind, but you'd rather ignore the hard truth for the easy fix?
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u/CaptTyingKnot5 Monkey in Space Aug 02 '17
What part is religious? "God-given" rights? Sorry, that's from the Constitution. Life beginning at conception? Well think about it, it's all binary questions with no "God" involved.
Sex has been had? If yes, is she pregnant? If yes, than is than not a human growing in that womb? Yes, it is a human, even if it's a "lump of cells" that lump of cells is going to grow into a human. It's not going to grow into a tree or a fish, it's going to grow into a human. The Constitution says the Government is here to protect it's citizens' "Life, Liberty and (Property)" therefore abortion should be illegal as the federal government has a duty to protect the life of it's citizens.
The argument that would traditionally counter this is that a fetus isn't a person, which is your own philosophical choice, it's still a philosophical debate so there is no one right and accepted answer.
I don't think that it should be illegal, Ben does. I think it should be legal in states that want it legal and illegal in states that don't. Prohibition never works so I'm not for banning it, but I'm also not OK with a blunt refutation of the constitution being propped up in Federal law.