sidneyworld
Senior Member
Punishment has nothing to do with it. Every adult knows that, no matter how careful they are, there's always the chance the woman could get pregnant. If a couple has sex at all, both of them have to accept responsbility for the consequences - which IMO means not taking a third life just because it happens to be an inconvenience for the next 9 months.so essentially, are you saying, if the girl has sex by choice, she should be forced to have her child...as some sort of punishment for having unprotected sex.
According to the Constitution, yes.
When medical technology gets to the point where we can remove an embryo and keep it alive for someone else, the law might change. I would hope that it does.
And I've shown how you'd be wrong. Abortion is always homicide, but one of the great tragedies of life is that sometimes homicide is justifiable or even necessary.it implies the child to be, really means nothing to you, and only controlling the woman's life that you don't approve of does....?
but according to our constitution, unborn children did not achieve personhood or protection via the bill of rights /constitution, under the constitution...they were not considered protected and i don't believe that was changed...these things were left up to legislators of each state...and not untill the middle of the 1800's did the states begin to make abortion illegal prior to ''quickening''....?
fyi!
IT WAS LEGAL at the time of our constitution and founding fathers up until the point of quickening....up until the point of the baby to be's first kick....those women who could not afford the 9th kid as example, would get a mixture of drugs from the drugist or midwife, that made them abort....early on in pregnancy.
THIS WAS Common Law of which all the states followed on this, until they started writing their own individual state law on it when a very strong evangelical movement came about...
so, i take issue that you say abortion is unconstitutional because at the time of the creation of the constitution, it was legal, up until...quickening....and the founding fathers made no mention of including the UNBORN in the constitution's protections???
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not legal in the sense of it writen in to law as a ''right'' but legal in the sense that it was not punished or talked about for the most part...
The constitution is not and never has been infallible. To imagine that the Constitution of the United States is absolute in natural law as relates to human beings is a legally defective perspective. Simply because something is legislated does not constitute absolute morality.
Also, not everything should "have" to be held to a legislative standard. Human beings are naturally expected to exercise a collective value system which includes a respect for all human life, when living among eachother as a society. This deals with, among other things, self regulation self respect and the lack of encroachment of the chosen quality of life within that community within any society.
Anne Marie