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MarkL:
...What the pro-abortion supporters are doing is demanding that the pro-life supporters just idly stand by and do nothing while they see human beings being murdered.


That's because the pro-aborts can never admit to themselves that pro-lifers actually and honestly feel abortion is murder.
Instead they project pro-lifers as people who want to control the moral behavior of other people's victimless activity.

It doesn't matter what some people FEEL about murder. - We must have a rule of law about it.

States were making unconstitutional laws that ALL voluntary abortions could be prosecuted as murder.
The USSC held that a legally viable ~person~ must be murdered. Prove viablity, and you can prosecute.

[FreeReign]

The USSC held that a legally viable ~person~ must be murdered. Prove viablity, and you can prosecute.

Why must a ~person~ be viable outside the uterus in order for it to have the unalienable right to life??

[My2Cents]

States were making unconstitutional laws that ALL voluntary abortions could be prosecuted as murder.

I have to take issue with this. By 1973, and the Roe v. Wade decision, states were going in the other direction -- toward liberalized abortion statutes. California had already swung in this direction, as had New York. What the pro-aborts were seeking to strike down with the case in the Supreme Ct. were laws that put restrictions on abortion, not laws that proclaimed abortion as murder. I don't know for sure, but I suspect that by the time of Roe v. Wade perhaps only Mississippi and Alabama had laws calling abortion murder. What the pro-aborts wanted was to wipe away all state restrictions; they got it.