refreshed is exactly right. I’d be opposed to abortion even if the Constitution was silent on the matter. But the Constitution is NOT silent. The 5th and 14th amendments are quite clear in guaranteeing that no person shall be deprived of their life without due process. The 14th Amendment also adds the explicit requirement that all states provide equal protection of the law to all persons. Every elected official swears an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Any chief executive of any jurisdiction could ban abortion in that jurisdiction, by recognizing that we’re all persons from the earliest stage of our individual biological development. If you’ve never looked up the definition of the word “person”, I urge all of good will to do so, and urge your state’s Governor to do so too. I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to support a candidate for president in 2012 and 2016 who promised to use every lawful means to require that no abortions be performed under color of law, starting on Day 1 of his administration. That candidate was fellow FReeper Tom Hoefling of Iowa. Volunteers across the nation did what it took to ensure that votes for Tom would be counted and talked in enough states to win the Electoral College. I helped in that effort in my home state of Maryland in 2012. I tried to help in that effort in my new home state of South Carolina in 2016. We succeeded in Maryland, but failed in South Carolina.
Little babies lack cognitive ability, too young anyway to vote, not live born, no names or certificates of live birth, BUT concievitly entitled to recognition as being alive.