sleeper;1833835 wrote:Unborn don't have legal rights. So the woman gets to chose whether or not she wants to carry the cluster of cells to term or not.
This isn't the 1800's anymore. Women are people too and it's their right to control what happens to their own bodies. It doesn't surprise me at all that advocates for sexual violence against women don't understand basic fundamental human rights for women. Hail Trump!
At some point, I predict that the SCOTUS will need to decide when life begins, and with this decision, when human rights of the unborn begin.
As you have so eloquently stated, "(t)his isn't the 1800's anymore". We know through the advancement of medical fact, that the "cluster of cells", when the situation happens, can become a premie and can grow outside of the womb. This phenomenon has happen with a couple people I know who are adults this day.
I understand your point that women have rights to control what happens to their bodies. If the day comes that a legal decision is made determining in-uetero life, women, and the men they sleep with, will need to understand the ramifications of their sexual activities and that these activities can have consequences that will lead to a separate person, other than themselves, having fundamental human rights as well.
Until that day, children who could otherwise be able to grow into adulthood, will continue to die.
This is a main reason why I think people elected DJT. They have the hope that he will put judges in the position that one day the human rights of the unborn will finally be acknowledged... kind of like why people who didn't like everything about him, voted for Lincoln in the hope that slavery would be ended and the former slaves would be guaranteed their human rights.
We'll see how it all meshes out. My opinion is that if people are
really concerned about fundamental human rights, they will naturally want, even demand, to extend those same rights to the unborn.