appolose said:
"You would agree that the government would have all the rights in the world to protect a fetus provided it is a human being, correct"? It is the anti-abortionists position that the fetus is a human, so they are not advocating that the government have direct control of the women's body. Again, would you consider it an encroachment of a person's rights if the government prevented a person from killing their six year old child? Of course not. Why? Because you consider the six year old a human, and thus it has it's own rights. And the anti-abortionists considers the fetus to be human, and thus think it has its own rights. So, they do not advocate the idea that the government can tell you what do with your own body.
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And what makes the anti-abortionists right? Nothing. Not that the pro-abortionists are right either.
In this debate nobody is right because there is no universal definition of life, its generally agreed that by the time a baby is born it is human and that before it is conceived it is not, in between is a slightly grey area. Now what gives the anti-abortionists the right to push their views of when life begins on an extremely large segment of the population who believe differently?
