there is nothing democratic about killing the unborn. It is NOT In the constitution no matter how many ways you think it. Leftists care about the people right? You care that the PEOPLE have a say in what happens...well. NOW The people have a say in whether killing the unborn is acceptable or not. California and New York will gladly enable that to happen. Maryland, Oregon, Washington, and DC and many others. Is that not enough for you? The people will decide AS should have been the case in the beginning.
PRIVACY is in the Constitution. Abortion shouldn't be in the Contsistution because it has NOTHING to do with government. The Constitution sets out how the country is to be governed, not what medical procedures should be allowed. Abortion was a private medical matter between a woman and her doctor, when the Constitution was written and of no concern to politicians at all. The first abortion laws weren't even passed until the late 1800's, when the Founders had been long dead.
The people have had NO SAY, in this at all. 80% of the American people from BOTH political parties are in favour of a woman's right to choose, and even those who oppose abortion for convenience are not opposed to an abortion to save the life of the mother, or in cases of rape or incest.
Furthermore, the most radical laws which ban all abortion with no exceptions, even for the life of the mother, are endangering women's lives and reproductive health. If the woman dies, so does the foetus, When doctors are unable to intervene until after the foetus dies, both the health of the mother, and the chances of her having another child, can be severely impacted.
This is not in the best interests of the women, or the nation. This is simply a radical public policy which is based on extremist religious view with no basis either in the Bible, or in science.
Even the Bible ascribes to rights to the unborn and if a man causes a pregnant woman such that she loses the child she's carrying, but no other harm is done, he must pay a fine to the woman's husband, but if he harms the woman, he is subject to the fullest measure of the law.
No that is not enough for you. Women should have automony over their own bodies, and the right to a safe, legal, reproductive care in every state of the union - equally, and without and "state imposed" restrictions, waiting period, unnecessary tests, or lectures.
This assumption that women simply need to be convinced not to have an abortion is insulting, and demeaning. Why don't we sit men down and caution them on the dangers of fathering an unwanted child before prescribing Viagara?