If the answer is yes, why would you support a system that permits a state to declare the baby to be a nonperson?
If the answer is no, why oppose abortion at all?
Read Blackmun's opinion in Roe, he clearly acknowledges that once the unborn baby's personhood is established that any arguments in favor of abortion collapses because the baby then enjoys 14th Amendment rights.
Yes I do.
But there are many Americans who do not. And if I desire to bring the power of the government to bear against them, I have to have the law solidly on my side. Just saying, "I am right and they are wrong" does not suffice.
Read Blackmun's .... once the unborn baby's personhood is established .. arguments in favor of abortion collapses
That's quite correct. So what we are discussing is whether, under the law as now written, personhood is established.
You and some freepers may believe it is. I and other freepers may believe it is not.
The GOP platform, which calls for Congressional validation of the unborn as persons protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, is an entirely appropriate position, and it's regrettable that the GOP has failed to address it when it has held control of Congress.