What if you were that fetus and got aborted?
Who is laughing now?
It wouldn’t matter at all
I didn’t know I “existed” and I certainly wasn’t a human. Why would I have cared? I didn’t care about my non existence long before I entered the universe
Why is anyone laughing with this direct attack from the radical right?
How about Christian's agree to go to prison if they get an abortion and leave everyone else the **** alone. Why do they need to force it on anyone else in order to get their rocks off? If this is how it's going to be then I thi k its perfectly reasonable for non Christian's to teach their kids to hate Christians and that they are the enemy.
I hate the abortion debate. The only way to get the moral high ground is to make an assumption at the start. The base question is what is the status of a fetus.
If you assume it has no status, you get moral high ground about women's health and rights. If you assume it has the status of any other person, you get the moral high ground that our society is committing mass murder.
Ultimately, there's no objective answer to when rights attach. It's a judgment call you make based on your own thoughts and feelings. But recognizing that destroys your moral high ground. It's far easier to assume you're right about a fetus as your logic flows seamlessly from there. It lets you insult, criticize, and mock any who disagree.
If fetal homicide is a crime how can abortions be legal? You can’t have both. Either killing a fetus is a crime or it’s not.
Whether killing a fetus should be a crime or not depends on what its status is. What rights it has and duties it's owed.
If you decide it's the same as any other person you should be out campaigning to outlaw abortion.
If you decide it has no status, you should be out campaigning against abortion as violating women's rights.
My only point is that deciding what the status of a fetus is is a personal decision with no objective answer.
But the majority of states do have a charge of and do charge people with fetal homicide. I don’t see how that charge would hold up on an appeal if the state has lax abortion laws. Isn’t this a future Supreme Court case?
Abortion laws are only as enforceable as the courts allow. You're seeing a push now largely because of the new makeup of the SCOTUS.
Some would argue the current push is a mobilization of the base for partisan political purposes.
As was Gay Marriage an issue leading up to 2004.
Or as a diversion from Trumps troubles