There's already a ruling on it. "All mean are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
They can argue about when life begins all they want to. But the only real answer would be at conception. Once the sperm fertilizes the egg, it's a done deal.
Actually life begins in the male. Because sperm is a living organism. Those little swimmers are alive and moving whether it's down the shower drain, or into the woman.
None the less, the point is that do we allow the government to make arbitrary decisions bases on popular belief? Like they did with slavery? Or by scientific facts that respect "the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?"
This poll was supposed be a way of getting down to the nitty gritty of facts, And to expose the BS talking points that both sides have used forever. I'm pro choice, but I understand that abortion is murder. Regardless of the talking points used to justify it. And so if someone supports states rights over the life of a child, they simply support murder.
Someone told Charlie Kirk, "A fetus is just a clump of cells."
In which he replied, "We're all just a clump of cells"
One thing I might add about these states that have banned abortions with no exceptions, is going to keep a lot of innocent men out of prison, on false rape charges. If rape or incest is an exception, then the woman would have to file rape charges on someone. Including the man (even her brother) she had consensual sex with.
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You have to understand what forms our morality
People tend to look up to authority figures for moral guidance. This includes our parents, the state, religious leaders, and even our peers, etc.. For example, before slavery was made illegal, the general consensus was that it was Ok, despite not being ideal. The church was wishy washy on the subject in general, that is, at least on the South for obvious reasons. But after slavery was made illegal for over a century, the general moral consensus has flipped 100% against slavery.
The same can be said of abortion. Before abortion was made legal, the general consensus was that it was not moral. However, decades after being made legal, the general consensus is that abortion is not ideal, but Ok, just like slavery was in the 1800's.
Shrug, we are lemmings, or as the Bible calls us, sheeple.
Having said that, it is not quite that simple. We also have an innate understanding of good and evil via our conscience, something that is God given. This also needs to be dealt with. The Golden Rule stands to do unto others as you would have them do to you stands in the way of mistreating those who are our peers and equals, so it must be bypassed. To bypass it, the slaves were reasoned to not really be our peers or equals, rather, they were just glorified apes. And with the fetus, they are not really human, even though we were all a fetus at one point. And with the Germans, they compared Jews to vermin, etc. The dehumanizing of the individual is then what is key to achieving the mental gymnastics to bypass our conscience and embrace mass genocide instead.