| It doesn't assume abortion is an okay thing to do. It assumes you have complete control and privacy over your own body - which you do. An unborn fetus has never been granted rights in our constitution or anywhere else. It does not have personhood. There is only then one person here: the owner of the body. > Abusing your spouse This doesn't work, because your spouse has personhood and therefore rights. To be clear, this has never been solved by any courts in the US. We still do not consider the unborn to be American citizens with individual personhood. The Supreme Court decided that's hard, so they just didn't do it when Roe was overturned. They essentially "carved out" an exception to privacy for exactly one-use case - Abortion. You can certainly drink while pregnant. You can certainly smoke while pregnant. Because that is your body and your right, and you are exactly one person. None of that has changed from a legal standpoint. Now, you are one person with every right to privacy... except one. I think, if you wish to ban abortion, you have to start at the core issue - who is considered a person, and who isn't? WHEN does an arrangement of cells become coherent enough to be considered a person? The reason nobody wants to answer this is because it's very hard, and there's a lot of unfortunate implications. Then the Supreme Court "cheated", in my opinion. > These things should come from congress not the supreme court They already did come from Congress, when Congress passed the 14th amendment, in my opinion. |