This one is a repeat for your need it Shitlips but also an effort to try (probably in vain) to educate
Pellinore
The right to life is not supposed to be a matter subject to the whims of democracy. Accordingly, voter sentiment is irrelevant.
Again, this is a very strong example of why we aren’t a “democracy.”
Yeah, I saw. You're approaching it, though, from your definition of a fetus is "life." Your point of view as to what constitutes "life" is your own, of course, and you are entirely allowed to have it ... but the thing you overlook is that other people are allowed to define it in their own way as well. It's not as if we can measure life molecules in parts per million, or whatever; it is a moral, ethical, and often theological issue with no universal scientific answer.
Some religions and ideologies believe that life happens the moment the two cells become a zygote, others believe not until the moment of birth, and yet others believe all points in between. We could, as a society, decide on one definite point and run from there, but instead our society is set up to allow all religions and other ideologies to exist together. That's what makes our country great in the first place.
So it's not our government's job to decide which answer is "correct," and when life definitively begins or ends. Our government's job instead to allow each person to make their own decisions, as it is with any other medical choices, or with how we raise our children, or what we choose to keep private, or maintain our dignity, or any of those. It's also their job to prevent others from infringing on our rights to do those things.
The
Roe v. Wade ruling did this. It acknowledged that it was not the government's job to define human "life," but to allow each person to define it according to their own conscience. In order to protect each person's ability to make that choice, it prohibited State and local governments from passing their own anti-abortion laws. That's how our government works.
Dobbs was a mistake, the result of a blatantly partisan court establishing a moral, ethical, and theological position in order to
take away a major Constitutional right. That's a first; the Court has never done that before, and it sets us on a dangerous path. I'll let your imagination fill in the blanks of how cataclysmic that can be to our system when applied to other rights, and how bad it can be for you, specifically, when the Court decides that people like
you are suddenly not allowed a right you've had for your entire life.
Go on, pick a right. A big one. Now imagine not having it.
