The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Alex

On most topics I'm in full agreement with "most liberty side wins" but in the case of abortion the fundamental question at issue is who involved has rights and liberties to be protected and balanced.

And in this particular instance where it's the rights of American citizen women vs. those of non-citizen unborn fetusi ... I'd say the only Constitutional thing to do is to come down on the side of those who are American citizens.

The unborn are, by Constitutional definition, absolutely not citizens. You can argue all day long about whether they're alive, but they haven't been born.





BTW: There are precious few (if any) other examples where one's own liberty purports to harm another. Simply because there are no other examples where that "other" resides within your very own body.

So to ask what type of majority rules in such questions is a canard. One's liberty stops where harm to another begins. I suppose if there were American "Siamese" twins who wanted to poke each others eyes out, we might have a similar circumstance. Otherwise, abortion is unique.