Can you explain why abortion is wrong? I mean, who says, what authority?
I say it's wrong.
I say it on my authority as a human to determine moral behavior, and on my authority as someone who uses science and rational thought to assess my opinions on the events of the day.
And abortion is wrong for the simple reason that babies are not supposed to be murdered. Not by homicidal eugenic socialist snobs, not by desperate mother-incubators who want to be emptied quickly.
The baby becomes an individual human being the moment the process of ovum fertilization is complete, something that must happen before the fertilized egg is implanted on the uterine wall. This is simple embryology.
Since it is wrong to terminate innocent human life, it's incumbent upon both the female and the male to avoid doing things that can lead to successful fertilization if they do not wish the female to become pregnant. This is the United States. There are possibly hundreds of legal ways for the couple to avoid pregnancy if they don't want pregnancy, and their failure to succeed in avoiding pregnancy is not a crime committed by the child they created together and the burden of the pregnancy is not something the innocent child should be expected to bear.
It's not difficult, ladies and germs, don't do the crime if you don't want the bambino. If you have the bambino, shut up and take care of it. It's only nine months and then you can adopt it out. Think of it as an object lesson on what you personally (not you, Lursa) could have done differently.
The thing about abortion is that to ban it, it would require violating many of women's Constitutional rights, which the govt is obligated to protect. That....would be wrong. And the Const is the authority that protects women.
I'm totally Freedom of Choice.
I fully agree that women have every right to not get pregnant if they don't want to become pregnant.
But once they are pregnant, it's not their choice to murder the inconvenient little human they are now growing. Those little humans are...little humans and little humans have the same rights as the big humans.
Women have no Constitutional right to murder little humans, not even little humans with somewhat inconvenient geographical locations.
Cite the clause of the Constitution that grants women the right to murder inconvenient little humans.
Nowhere in the Const is the unborn protected. The unborn are specifically not 'persons.' I have plenty of links/quotes that demonstrate this, but the best 'start' is the first sentence of
the 14th Amendment:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Yet of course, women
are persons and protected by the Const...and the govt and our laws are obligated to protect women and our rights. So the unborn have no status with which to supersede women's rights. Do you understand this? Recognize the terrible pain and suffering women would have forced on them against their will if the right to abortion was ended?
Right. No state shall deprive ANY PERSON (even little ones inconveniently located) of their LIFE without due process of law.
Which thus grants little persons, not matter how small, rights under the Fifth Amendment:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
The science states that the unborn are unique but human individuals. The Fifth Amendment protects the rights of people by guaranteeing them a trial. What crime has an unborn child committed that warrants execution?