That’s gonna draw eyeballs, you’d think.
Over at Quora, some person asked: How can abortion be seen as a government issue? It’s a reasonable question, so I answered it:
Per our Constitution, everyone has certain inalienable rights. The right to life is one of those.
Regardless of your position on the topic, some time during gestation, an embryo becomes a human being. The argument seems to be whether this occurs at conception, at birth, or some point in between.
Most of the European nations seem to feel that the point is at about 12 weeks, where most of those polities set a limit on unregulated abortion.
Medically ending a pregnancy after that point is, quite literally, homicide – the taking of a human life. If it is for legitimate medical necessity, it is justifiable homicide. But if not, well, then it is at minimum manslaughter, but more likely borders on premeditated murder. Even Leftist Bill Maher understands:
That is a “government issue”.
There are three answers to that question at the time of this posting. The other two are… well, uninformed. Mine has received a whopping 54 views in four days.
“The argument seems to be whether this occurs at conception, at birth, or some point in between.”
Not so. Democrats have been arguing for “abortion” even after the child is born. So far as I can tell, they are contending that a baby has no rights until the doctor signs the birth certificate.