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Originally Posted by loopholbrook
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By leaving up to the state it means that the people of each state vote for the issue, i.e. prop 8 in California.
If it were up to me abortion would be no issue period. I get to some people it's considered murder, but in my eyes the baby isn't a person until it is born. Not for late term abortion though, that's equivalent to killing a baby. Idk, not trying to defend my postion or his, just clarifying if you look where he stands morally quite often it contradicts his political stance.
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The individual state should not have the right to infringe on what should be spelled out as a human right.
I think what you're looking for as far as abortion is "the age of viability." At about 20 weeks, a gestating fetus develops the ability to breathe air into it's lungs, should it suddenly find itself ejected from the womb. Without this ability, the fetus would die, even if one attempted to put the fetus on life support, as the lungs physically cannot accept air into the bloodstream (it has to do with blood pressure in the lungs and the manufactur of a substance called surfactant which allows the alveoli of the lungs to retain a certain pressure. In my opinion (this opinion is shared by many people who support abortion rights) this is the age where abortions should become illegal, because you might actually have to kill an infant, as a live fetus becomes known once alive outside of the womb (this is why some doctors are loathe to complete abortions which have passed 20 weeks but are still legal by the "2nd trimester" laws).
If yer a chick in dire straits, 20 weeks is more than enough time - even in the worst case - to make up your mind on this issue.