If SCOTUS indeed overturns Roe v. Wade, it would be a great day for human dignity and sanctity of innocent lives in the US.
What about the dignity of rape victims forced to carry, deliver, and raise the children of their rapists?
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Should states also be allowed to legislate contraceptives, premarital sex, sex between same sex couples, ...? After all, none of those are guaranteed by the constitution either. What "rights" do you enjoy that aren't expressly guaranteed in the constitution that others might want to let states legislate away from you?
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#13States ought not ban medical procedures which are mainstream in major countries around the world on the basis of religious ideology, but unfortunately that's what's happening in states like Texas. This is a private matter between any individual and their doctor. Of course rich individuals will still be able to fly to countries like UK or Germany to receive mainstream medicine backed by mainstream science.
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#14States ought not ban medical procedures which are mainstream in major countries around the world on the basis of religious ideology, but unfortunately that's what's happening in states like Texas. This is a private matter between any individual and their doctor. Of course rich individuals will still be able to fly to countries like UK or Germany to receive mainstream medicine backed by mainstream science.
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By that "logic" birth control does too.
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#15Abortion is absolutely an issue of personal autonomy which deserves Constitutional protection. I hope this ruling can help serve as an impetus for reform. We really need a Constitutional Convention, but an amendment would be progress.
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#16If SCOTUS indeed overturns Roe v. Wade, it would be a great day for human dignity and sanctity of innocent lives in the US.
What about the dignity of rape victims forced to carry, deliver, and raise the children of their rapists?
Don't most people hold that "two wrongs don't make a right"? In Hindu view abortion no matter the reason, except to save the mother's life, incurs strong negative karma.
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#17States ought not ban medical procedures which are mainstream in major countries around the world on the basis of religious ideology, but unfortunately that's what's happening in states like Texas. This is a private matter between any individual and their doctor. Of course rich individuals will still be able to fly to countries like UK or Germany to receive mainstream medicine backed by mainstream science.
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So you are also against IVF?
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The constitution also has no right to privacy, but I'm willing to bet given that you're posting on a throwaway account that you believe privacy is rather important. Or would you be okay with the Supreme Court completely eroding all privacy laws because it doesn't exist in the constitution?
The right to abortion is something that was ruled as something between a woman and her doctor to decide. Not the federal government, and not state agencies. Frankly there are already plenty of laws and guidance in place that the drum beating against Roe v Wade is purely powered by hysteria and not facts or logic.
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Yikes. Preventing abortions brings unwanted children into the world and pushes abortion underground, where they’ll just be less safe abortions. Do you know how unwanted children are treated? I volunteer as a guardian ad litem for children who need a court appointed advocate, and I support abortion fully having seen the alternative suffering, not to mention anti abortion proponents supporting life right up until birth…
So it’s better for them not to exist? Would be nice to at least give them a chance to live.
Parents who don’t want to be parents should be able to elect not to be parents. Forcing them to have children they don’t want and won’t want to or be able to provide for does a disservice to everyone. I’m not going to parrot out bodily autonomy, it wouldn’t matter anyway to anti abortionists; they have their belief system, and it is rigid (religion, politics, whatever). The battle is won on other fronts (robust access to Plan B and abortion pills, logistical networks to get those who need an abortion to medical providers).