Live in Indiana? Give the gift of Abortion!

[MrBubbles]

Jackson50 said:

Comrade Tovya said:According to Roe v Wade, a woman is guaranteed the right to an abortion because the fetus is considered by that ruling to be property of the woman.

As for your assertion that the "state has a compelling interest to give precedence to the woman's right to privacy (which guarantees abortion) until the fetus is viable", there is no prior precedence that provides that right.  Never in the history of the courts prior to RvW was there ever a precedent that even remotely implied that a fetus was property of the woman nor has any prior ruling ever stated that the right to privacy and the right to an abortion were in anyway connected.

The RvW ruling stated that the definition of "viable" was the date at which a fetus has the ability to survive outside of the womb... in Miami back in Feb. 2007, a 19-week old baby was delivered and SURVIVED, which is far younger than Roe v Wade had originally stipulated as the earliest ability for a fetus to survive outside of the womb (they estimated it to be 28-weeks).

as for your comment that "A fetus does not violate a man's constitutional right"... what exactly does that mean?

If a woman chooses to keep the kid, and the father doesn't want to keep it... can he make the choice to abort the baby?  No.

I see Akuma has provided some quality answers, so I will keep it concise. 

A woman is not guaranteed that right because a fetus is property. She is guaranteed that right because her right to privacy, which the court decided guaranteed a right to an abortion, supercedes a fetus' right to life up until a certain point. Also, simply because a fetus is viable does not mean it has an automatic right to life. It only means the state can restrict a woman's right to an abortion so long as her health is not threatened.  

That was poorly worded. What I meant is that the court ruled that a restriction on abortion violates a woman's right to privacy and, therefore, she has a right to terminate the pregnancy. A man's right to privacy is not violated by a restriction on abortion. Which right is violated? I cannot think of one. 

Science has disproven what? A baby is a baby? That makes no sense. I know science postulates that a fetus cannot feel pain until it is born. From what I can gather, the jolt that birth provides to a fetus is what truly marks its inclusion into the human species. 

 

no it doesnt...