If opposition to abortion is presented on a secular level, there stands a better chance of support for opposition to abortion to win the day as it will bring together both those of a religious point of view and persons in opposition to religion. Such a presentation exists.
The purpose of the Constitution of the United States of America was to establish a form of government that could best assure the unalienable rights proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence. First and foremost among these rights is Life.
Science, the often-defined “religion” of the nonreligious, defines life as the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects. Using this secular definition, an embryo at any stage of development has life.
Further, the Preamble of the constitution states the purpose to be, “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”. Our posterity is future generations. This being a purpose of the constitution it is therefore unconstitutional to abort the life of a member of posterity.
The debate over abortion must expend into secular thought if abortion is to be banned.
Well said. Just because something is antithetical to one’s religion does not mean that it should be unconstitutional. If we attempt to use religious arguments as the strongest prop for banning abortion, we have no right to complain when Muslim citizens use their religion to make arguments against women owning land or driving.