1) I don't consider fetuses to be "children", and neither do most sensible people, at least not in the first trimester, when 96% of abortions are preformed.
2) The state merely acknowledged reality in 1973. The dirty little secret is that before Roe v. Wade, women had abortions and their doctors wrote something else down on the charts.
3) As much as you find something morally reprehensible, doesn't mean other people do. If people agreed with you that it was, you would have more of an argument.
1. most people do consider unborn humans as humans
2. abortion is murder, it was murder before roe v wade and its murder today
3. a society decides what it considers right and wrong, and it does it by majority vote. So lets put it to a vote, ok?
You are just all about following the leader aren't you? Letting society decide for you what "right" and "wrong" is, and acquiescently embracing the herd's collective subjective opinion by assuming that it equates to some objective truth.
in a word, yes. a society that does not operate on democratic principles is either a dictatorship or anarchy. All free democratic societies decide what is to be considered right and wrong based on majority opinion. Our constitution was ratified by majority vote of the states, all of our laws are put in place by majority vote, our representatives are selected by majority vote.
it amazes me that you liberals favor minority control over your lives.
Incorrect.
The United States is a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy, whose citizens are subject solely to the rule of law, not men, as men are incapable of ruling justly.
Because we are a Constitutional Republic and not a democracy, citizens' civil rights are not subject to 'majority rule,' the majority is not authorized to determine who will or will not have his civil rights, where we are citizens of the United States first and foremost, and residents of our respective states subordinate to that – as one does not forfeit his civil rights merely as a consequence of his state of residence.
Consequently, the majority of a given state may not compel a woman to have a child against her will, for the state to seek to do so violates the woman's right to privacy and her protected liberty to make personal, private decisions absent unwarranted interference from the state.
What's sad and telling is that so many conservatives are ignorant of the fact that the United States is a Constitutional Republic and not a democracy, and that they wish to expand the size and authority of the state at the expense of individual liberty.
