I can accept the abortion of a viable fetus as "murder". But not when the fetus cannot survive on its own. It's part of the mother, with no independent means of existence. Religion may inform the matter for those so inclined, but that's a matter of individual morality. As a matter of the civil law and one's rights as an individual under the Constitution, a woman has the fundamental right choose what to do with her body without interference by the State.
You miss my point. How dare people demand that the power of the State be used to prevent (pick one or more) (Murder, robbery, assault, rape, lewd and lascivious behaviour, jaywalking, double parking, littering, child pornography, prostitution, drug abuse, DUI, arson, mother-rapers, father-stabbers, pickpockets, dipping pigtails in inkwells, lying to Congress, making a turn without signalling, cannibalism, shoplifting, etc.)?
Each of these rules, these laws, has some moral imperative.
That each of these are crimes is an imposition of morality using the power of the state on the choice of some individual who wants to commit them, a moral imposition.
Back to the concept that if someone murders a pregnant woman they are guilty of taking not just one but
two lives.
How can the murderer be charged with
two murders, but the abortionist, who takes only one of those lives, is only charged with the light bill and rent?
You ignore the fundamental Right to life itself, without which all other Rights are moot. The Right to not be deprived of life, Liberty, or property without due process of law. The presumption of innocence.
We rail about the Holocaust, and 60 million babies have been slaughtered since Roe.
Think about that.
TEN times the number of Jews murdered by the Nazis have been shredded in, poisoned in, chemically burned to death, or pulled out and had their brains sucked out of their skulls while still alive. and their heads were still in their mothers. Imagine how that would feel. To have someone cut the base of your skull open and suck your brains out. It's the stuff of horror shows.
Right here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, knee deep in the blood of innocents. Innocents accused of no crime, against whom no evidence has been brought of wrongdoing, and yet treated in ways that would cause public outcry if we were to employ those methods to remove even the most heinous criminals from our society.
How long before the toddlers, the elderly, those halt and infirm are fair game?
It has happened before, inspired by the same eugenicists.
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As children we recoiled in horror at the tales of Aztec Priests, perched on pyramid temples, cutting hearts out of victims all day long, in sacrifices to their gods.
Now, within the structural equivalent of the 'plain brown wrapper', babies are slaughtered in far greater numbers, slaughtered not to some appease some supernatural deity, or to make the rain come, the crops grow, or to stop the volcano from erupting, but on the altar of
convenience, and we don't hear anything but those who lamely try to justify those rivers of blood.
Two of my great-grandchildren were born early. One weighed 1 lb, 10 oz when born. She's a beautiful 2nd grader now. Another weighed 3 lbs, 8oz. She, too is a beautiful child. New York's law allows for killing children older and more viable than those girls were at birth. We are teetering on the brink of killing anyone 'inconvenient', and your not seeing that is only willful blindness.
No species which murders its young has long to survive.
