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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Ryannnnnn · 31-35, M

I think because it's a contradiction to the concept of freedom. They have the freedom to restrict a very basic freedom which is weird.

Slade · 56-60, M

@Ryannnnnn What a pearl of wisdom!

RocktheHouse · M

@Ryannnnnn Does the child's inability to speak disenfranchise the child's right to live? The unborn baby, fetus or embryo - cluster of cells, fetal tissue - doesn't matter what words you use to describe the unborn child - is a living developing heart-beating human that has the ability to feel pain and experience emotions. This is not just the mother's body we are talking about here. If there wasn't a human life involved, do you think we would be unset about the termination of pregnancy? The problem is termination of pregnancy involves taking away a life.

Ryannnnnn · 31-35, M

@RocktheHouse Depends on the subjective definition of alive. A cluster of cells isn't a baby.
Also we get into the territory of forcing a woman to birth a child born from forced sex, younger women being forced to birth children from incest etc. They're the real victims of these policies and it's not up to men to decide women's personal problems in regards to their own bodies.

Ryannnnnn · 31-35, M

@RocktheHouse Tbh the main point is regardless that it's not anyone else's decision to make other than the parent's. When other people start getting involved it just becomes confusing because it is a morally grey area with no right or wrong answer.

Maybe someone is made to give birth because it's the right thing to do in another's eyes, then that child grows up in extreme poverty and likely abandoned by the government as so many are.
I know someone who had an abortion because she was sexually exploited at 14-15 by a pedophile, I wouldn't consider it just or right to force her to carry that through and be stuck raising a child of a pedophile at a young age.

Nobody considers the changes in a woman's body after the fact also, it's a huge thing to go through physically, mentally and emotionally. Not only that but financially, and unfortunately due to the broken systems our world operates under money means everything and we don't look after the most vulnerable. So it's complicated and after many years of thinking it over and debating I've concluded it's none of our business as men or that of the state.