Yes and no, abortion is not a Federal/constitutional issue. But neither is it a State issue. It is a medical issue to be resolved between doctor and patient and like all medical issues, the patient should pay for the service provided directly or through insurance. It is not birth control and should never be funded as such by ANY government agency. Nor should it be allowed to become the sole practice of a medical facility. State boards of medical ethics should adopt rules preventing "abortion mills".
I expect to get flamed, but that's the way I feel about it. Medical decisions are between you and your doctor and the government should butt out.
Regards,
GtG
PS My GP volunteers one day a week at a "free clinic" she started and has dragooned enough help to keep it open seven day a week. This is not all that unusual as nearly every mid to large sized city has these facilities for the truly needy.
and what happens when doctor won;t do the procedure and insurance won’t pay?
Then it will fall back to the gubment when some turd sues.
Abortion is a constitutional issue in the following sense:
The U.S. Constitution recognizes the rights of persons, and doesn’t recognize the personhood of the unborn.
Judges, then, in abortion cases, are weighing the Liberty of a person merely against the state’s interest in regulating medical procedures.
What we really need is a ruling, building on Webster, that the state can recognize a form of personhood of the unborn baby, and therefore justify a more pro-Life balancing of the rights of the party’s involved in abortion.
I think this isn’t so very wierd of a position. Minor children are viewed as persons and yet can’t sign contracts, nor consent to sexual relations, etc., etc. We can apply such a common sense concept of personhood to the pre-born.
St. Ambrose put it this way: That which has the potential to be human should be treated as human. We have Biblical certainty that sometime while in the womb God infuses the stuff of us with an immortal soul. This soul has existed from the beginning of time, with God, and will continue to exist forever. When does God infuse this soul into our physical stuff, by tradition, we say at quickening, but we cannot be certain of this.
As citizens in a secular society, informed by our faith we are certain that human life begins in the womb. Therefore, we should protect life at some point within the womb. This is a moral imperative. At what point we do this, reflects our concerns both for Liberty as well as Life.
Constitutionally, abortion has to be more than a weighing of the Liberty of one person versus the state’s interest in regualting medical procedures. It has to be a Life versus Liberty thing.