Why do you oppose allowing states to decide their own abortion laws?

If you want to live in a state that allows abortion, you are free to reside in that state. If a woman wants an abortion, they are free to travel to that state and get an abortion. The tenth amendment gives states some degree of sovereignty:

[b]The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. [/b]

If it's not in the constitution, which abortion isn't, it's left up to the state to decide - as long as state laws don't violate the constitution. A woman's right to protect her own life is a constitutional right. All states that have abortion laws have a provision that allows women to terminate their pregnancy in those life-threatening situations. Beyond that, there's nothing in the constitution that would give a woman the right to murder her own baby.

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BohemianBoo · M

No, because human rights shouldn't be left to the states.
And even if you do think abortion should be left to the states, Republicans are also trying to make it illegal to get an abortion in a neighboring state. They don't actually care about states' rights.

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BohemianBoo · M

@dale74 [quote]you talk about human rights why don't you look up how many countries you're even allowed to get an abortion in if we did what most countries do abortion would be illegal.[/quote]

Human rights aren't determined by legality or popularity. Slavery used to be the norm all over the world, it didn't mean slavery didn't go against human rights.

[quote]Abortion only became so popular because of racist trying to exterminate minorities.[/quote]

Source?
And even if that was true, it wouldn't change a thing. Bodily autonomy would still be a human right.

dale74 · M

@BohemianBoo look up the writings of Margaret Singer the one who created planned Parenthood the one who you've been quoting all day in this post.

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BlueVeins · 22-25

@dale74 [quote]Abortion only became so popular because of racist trying to exterminate minorities.[/quote]

This objectively isn't true; abortion has been pretty common throughout human history since the BC era, and it'll remain common for as long as birthing and raising kids remains difficult, dangerous, and expensive. But even if this were true, it literally would not matter. Rockets were greatly advanced by the Nazis as a method of murdering British civilians and destroying their infrastructure; by your logic, we should abandon rocketry and stop launching satellites just to spite that diseased legacy.

easterniowegin · 51-55, M

@dale74 yeah, these idiots are unwilling to engage a search engine. Not only must you spoon-feed them, you must include a trusted source so that they can be told what to think while there.

The amount of twenty-something "experts" is astounding...esp when they struggle with actual fact finding.

dale74 · M

@easterniowegin just remember they're from a generation after us or two generations after us. Life's just too easy for him he probably doesn't even know how to use an encyclopedia set that can't be changed by political views.

easterniowegin · 51-55, M

@dale74 they are certainly the epitome of "weak men create bad times".
I still cannot understand how ppl can choose to be so ignorant nowadays.