speedracer
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Abortion is about a woman's right to privacy *and* the philosophical question of whether an embryo is human *and* the moral judgment of which side wins.
Personally I think that the embryo is a human life, or very possibly is, and that this possibility dictates that abortions be performed only in the most exceptional cases. Obviously a lot of people disagree.
In my opinion, the Supreme Court overstepped its authority in writing the Roe v. Wade opinion. It did not interpret the law, it wrote law. It effectively declared that the value of the embryo was such that it could be aborted for any reason during the first trimester, but perhaps not in later trimesters. The Supreme Court tried to make it look like it wasn't making arbitrary philosophical and moral judgments by framing its decision in terms of "the state's interest in protecting human life," but it was in fact making these arbitrary judgments.
The judgments mentioned above should not be made by the Court, but by the people (i.e. the individual states). The only way there should be a national judgment on abortion is if passes through Constitutional means, i.e. if three-fourths of the states of the Union decide to write an amendment on the issue. And if 38 states vote in favor of a Constitutional amendment making abortion legal nationwide, so be it.
Personally I think that the embryo is a human life, or very possibly is, and that this possibility dictates that abortions be performed only in the most exceptional cases. Obviously a lot of people disagree.
In my opinion, the Supreme Court overstepped its authority in writing the Roe v. Wade opinion. It did not interpret the law, it wrote law. It effectively declared that the value of the embryo was such that it could be aborted for any reason during the first trimester, but perhaps not in later trimesters. The Supreme Court tried to make it look like it wasn't making arbitrary philosophical and moral judgments by framing its decision in terms of "the state's interest in protecting human life," but it was in fact making these arbitrary judgments.
The judgments mentioned above should not be made by the Court, but by the people (i.e. the individual states). The only way there should be a national judgment on abortion is if passes through Constitutional means, i.e. if three-fourths of the states of the Union decide to write an amendment on the issue. And if 38 states vote in favor of a Constitutional amendment making abortion legal nationwide, so be it.