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Because society as a whole does, and thus passed laws regulating the matter. You seem to have a blind spot when it comes to the fact that the legislature has the power to pass laws regulating how people live their lives.steen said:Why would they? If nobody cares, then there wouldn't be a law.
That only about 1% of abortions happen at around viability matters because the state's ability to limit abortions is very limited up to that point.
Uh.....what's your point? The court STILL said that the states DO in fact have the power to "enslave" women by forcing them to provide their bodily resources to the clump of cells living in their body. So even the most liberal SC of the 20th century agreed that at some point, the state has the power to control what women do with their body. Why do you disagree? And if you don't, then your whole argument about a higher moral principle just went out the window. Now we're just arguing about the date.
And also you do realize that perhaps the reason that so few abortions happen after viability is because the state regulates abortion at that point?
You chose to walk out and pick berries that day and was caught and sold into slavery. That is as relevant as the woman's decision to have sex is somehow giving you the right to enslave her by preventing her from abortion an unwanted pregnancy that uses her bodily resources against her will.
I don't have the RIGHT to do anything to her, but the STATE has the POWER to force her to "use her bodily resources" at some point.