Not too long ago, in this nation’s history, the unborn had the same rights as the born.
Oh how far we have fallen.
Indeed. What was once a golden cup in the hand of the Almighty, is now almost completely unrecognizable. Furthermore, unless the hearts and minds of a nation's people change, and turn from their wicked ways, simply electing a new leader isn't going to save such a nation from its evil deeds.
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.