Abortions used to be prohibited under pain of law but it never was treated the same as murder.
We run into sticky territory here. I hate abortion as much as the next guy, but this is an attempt to move the matter onto the plane of human-given rights rather than God-given and human-acknowledged rights. The Constitution never quite rose to talking about God-given rights even though the Declaration of Independence did. Blame chattel slavery for that coy omission, I would probably reason. Sin has a cost. At any rate, now we deal with a man-given rights paradigm.
One sticky problem is, what kind of responsibility do we assess in the event of what might have been called an act of God? Like failure of a zygote to implant, or miscarriage? If the only rights they have are before men, then men are forced into ridiculous positions. If their rights are before God, then acts of God are not counted against men.
>> At any rate, now we deal with a man-given rights paradigm.
And the situation where a woman’s “liberty” is defined by having the right to kill. Sick.
I see it differently. It allows for an (overwhelmingly logical) secular argument for life. If unborn children are defined as persons legislatively, they pick up all the rights and duties of any other citizen. Most notably the right to DUE PROCESS. And also the right to representation.
Well, we already have mix-o-problems with the same regard
- Abortion isn’t murder
- But killing a baby in-utero (drunk crash, robbery) get a 2-fer
- Mothers have ‘every right’ to murder their child
- Fathers have NO say yes/no and WILL be on the hook for 18-yrs if come to term.
- Mothers can be prosecuted for fetal-alcohol/drug
Only the Left can pretzel logic enough to have and eat their cake.
Course, logic isn’t their forte. Though, it’s not hard to see that the new genetic make-up in the tummy is the EXACT same post-vagina = the child born is the same HUMAN pre-birth.
Same as if someone has a heart attack and dies.
Failure to implant, etc., are merely examples of natural death, and are not homicide.
When my 85-year-old grandmother dies of a heart attack, nobody gets charged with homicide.
I think the issue you are trying to create is totally imaginary.