08-05-2022, 06:46 PM
Abortion is a form of homicide. No one has any "right" to commit homicide.
However, there are many different kinds of homicide - such as murder, negligent homicide, justifiable homicide, etc. - and abortion in general does not obviously and automatically fall into any one of those categories. For example, intentionally killing a pregnant mother might count as a double murder, while terminating a pregnancy that endangers the mother's life could be considered justifiable as self-defense. The former would be legally actionable, while the latter would not (at least, not after the determination of "justifiable" was made). It might even be useful to develop entirely new subcategories for "abortive" homicides.
In any case, the issue is nowhere near as simplistic as either side tends to make it out to be ("abortion is a right" vs. "abortion is murder"). Reasonable people can differ over particulars - which is why, as CaptUSA suggested in his previous post, the issue is best dealt with at the most local level feasible, rather than at the federal level. The feds should not be permitted to have any say in the matter at all.
(One thing is certain, though: the fetishization of abortion - like that seen in my previous post - is a deeply disturbing phenomenon.)
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