Oh, I see. Life no longer goes with liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Choosing infanticide is synomous with freedom now! Wouldn’t the founders be surprised!
Yes — if that’s the way you wish to put it.
It may come as a shock to you, but is none of YOUR business what a woman chooses to do, and neither is it the government’s. If a woman chooses to have an abortion, are you willing to personally, yourself, use force to prevent that abortion? Will you use lethal force to prevent that woman from undergoing an abortion? Will you kill that woman to prevent that abortion from taking place? Or are you simply going to trust to the agents of the State to do the killing for you?
Make no mistake: when you propose government action for or against something, it is the threat or deployment of force that gives that government action its ultimate authority. Lethal force is merely the logical end-point to government power.
That, I think, is what some of you do not understand. Government is a beast that must be constrained, at all times and in all ways. It isn’t a beast that must be given free rein when it suits us, but shackled when it is inconvenient for us. Some of you seem willing, even eager, to grow the State so that it may impose upon all your particular prejudices. Indeed, the Founders would be surprised: at the monumental arrogance of those Americans who have taken upon themselves the mantle of God, deciding who is sinner and who is saint, and effecting punishment thereof. Yes, they would be surprised, at the facility with which even the promise of power can corrupt the self-righteous. The Founders understood that power can tempt even the noblest soul, and none may be more easily tempted than those who claim to be doing “God’s work” or (to use a secular phrasing) those who claim that THEIR dictates are “for your own good”.