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In reply to the discussion: Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty [View all]MineralMan
(146,317 posts)You can skip that sort of demeaning language. You don't even know me.
Second, what is and what is not a human being is not a fixed thing. People have all sorts of opinions about it, and our law says that a fetus is not a human being. Human beings have rights, and our rights begin when we are born. That is in the Constitution.
You're perfectly free to believe that at conception the fetus is a human being. I do not share that belief. What you may not do, as I said earlier, is impose your belief on me or anyone other than yourself. Abortion is legal in this country. The right to have an abortion is protected by our Constitution. The SCOTUS ruled that in Roe v. Wade. And there it is.
If you do not believe that abortion is moral or ethical, then do not have one. You can even counsel people not to have one, based on your belief. You cannot, however dictate to anyone that they believe as you do, and that's the bottom line here. If you think you can, then you are distinctly in the wrong place intellectually, ethically, and probably online. That's not up to me, though. I don't make rules about any of those things.
If you try to impose your beliefs on me or anyone else, though, you will find me opposing you. Those who will be supporting your plan will be people I don't care to associate with. Good luck with all that.