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Women are not in a vacuum, their decisions impact all the people and babies around them and those people and babies have a right to an opinion.


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> Babies are not fetuses

false

> Just as no one has a right to tell you what you can do with your body

parents have this authority over children and the states have police power to tell people exactly what they may or may not do with their bodies

>neither you nor society has any right to tell a woman what she can and can't do with her body

nope

> 4th Amendment guarantees the right of the people to be secure in their person

The 4th amendment prohibits the government from seizing things. It has nothing to say about women from murdering babies.

> about to be creamed in election

seems unlikely from the polls I see but I would gladly trade all Republican political prospects for criminalizing abortions


> I would gladly trade all Republican political prospects for criminalizing abortions

We already know the results of that bone-headed idea. Criminalizing abortion does nothing to stop abortion, it only denies women the ability to have a safe abortion. Criminalizing abortion only serves to maim and kill teenage girls. Which is the lesser of two evils, the loss of an unknown potential, or the loss of a known viable individual? I am sure you've heard before the famous wisdom of George Santayana:

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.




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