[muleskinner]

That mandate includes the power of the state to force pregnant women to give up control over their own lives.

Addendum: What I should have said was this: If a woman who didn't want to become pregnant has become pregnant, she's already lost control.

You must be talking about a rape victim, right?

[My2Cents]

Rape victim excepted. But I'm sure you know that the vast, vast, VAST majority of abortions in this country are done for convenience, not because of rape or the life and health of the mother.