>>4722128
Anon, there is no right to life in the Constitution.
You are thinking of the Declaration of Independence, which has no legal binding.
Not to say I support RoevWade - but I will also say that you can't establish life as a right, legally. The Constitution works on the basis if denying the government authority to regulate or intervene in relation to certain things.
The problem with declaring abortion illegal, however, gets into the nasties of law enforcement. Where there is a demand for a service, there will be providers of it. To enforce the law, there must be investigations.
The ugly part is when women who have a miscarriage are investigated for seeking abortions and when doctors are placed on trial for allegedly conducting them.
I think the issue of abortion will largely go away when we fix the relationship between men and women. Women who are healthy and who feel secure in their partnership with a man do not look to kill their children. The debate/argument over abortion is a red herring to distract from the real issue - which is why it is these women are horrified to bring children into the world.
It's an easy distraction to project division onto. "He's against abortion because he wants to use pregnancy as a way to control you." It completely distracts from the fact that pregnancy is a rather frightening thing for many women, particularly those from broken homes and who have been fed full of school house propaganda. It's understandable that they would fear pregnancy and see abortions as a sort of defense against that fear - making it easy to distort the argument over it into one of control/rights.
Then you have the psy-ops who go out there and parade around the "I had fifteen abortions and plan to get another twenty before they are outlawed." These people are designed to inflame the argument and keep the real discussion between men and women from occurring.
We've gotten wrapped up in the politics and the agenda, when it's really a much simpler question… "Why are you so scared to have children?" Fix the problems uncovered with that question - and the abortion issue largely goes away, though laws will be needed on how human tissues are treated and categorized, legally.
UCLA, for example, has many patents out on genetic sequences found within human DNA, and it's very likely we will see cases of companies claiming to have your DNA patented. God only knows what is being done with the embryonic stem cell lines from abortions….