<< The issue today is in which class (full civil rights, partial civil rights, no civil rights) the unborn child (or, if you prefer, the fetus, the bundle of tissue, the fertilized cell, etc.) belongs>>
In my response to Mo Chips, I specifically avoided this part of the abortion issue. Outlawing abortion is about action, not thought. The issues you raise need to be agreed upon by a majority of people before abortions should or could be outlawed. That type of issue is so basic and so personal that I don't think the government should get involved. If enough people believed that a fetus was a person, we wouldn't even be having this discussion - there would be no abortions, legal or otherwise. The reality is that, for whatever reason, Americans as a whole like the laws the way they are, with minor exceptions such as parental notification. If more people wanted abortion to cease, abortion would become socially unacceptable, a course far more effective than making it illegal.
<<EVERY law we have tells the population how to think >>
Absolutely incorrect. As you put it in the rest of your response, most laws relate to actions. Only things like outlawing hate crimes relate to thoughts. At that point, the crime is not in what you did, but what you were thinking when you did it. If you mug someone, the mugging is the crime. If you mug them because you hate (fill in the blank), there are two crimes - the mugging and the hating. |
