They don't need to ban it, they just need to properly define it as murder.
“They don’t need to ban it, they just need to properly define it as murder. “
Same difference and a legislative short cut in my book.
How is that different than laws that have redefined “marriage”? Laws, which because they essentially redefine marriage, we oppose.
On the other hand, murder itself is whatever the law says is an “illegal” killing; meaning as long as it is not illegal, it is not murder. To me that is kind of morally wishy washy, and of no greater moral principle that what you can politically, get the law to say, or prevent the law from saying.
Whereas a “right to life” amendment, or its opposite, goes straight to the heart of the matter - life, and when life begins.
If human life begins when many of us think it does, then the life of the unborn infant in the womb has all the rights to life that we have, and protecting that life does not depend on redefining the meaning of murder - abortion is murder.
But, I admit the piecemeal approach, pro and con, is likely the only way the American body politic is likely to go, as neither side will get an outright majority in either direction.