“The dividing line on abortion is the same within the Tea Party as it is outside it. The issue always comes down to whether or not the unborn are human.”
Not to a lawyer, which all the members of the Supreme Court were for the Roe v. Wade decision. If you had read that decision, which is in normal english and not all that difficult to read, you would know why the straw man argument you use as a basis for decision is inadequate to the task. The Court in that decision of course assumed that the unborn are human.
The Roe v. Wade decision turns on a question of governmental power. Once the government is granted the power to make a decision, there is no way to control the end result of the decision. Had the Court given the government the right to intervene in abortion decisions, it would have paved the way to a bureaucratic slaughter of the innocents, as China has indeed already done. If you think that’s not true, recall all the nasty propaganda from the supporters of the current administration when they discussed Sarah Palin’s decision to continue the pregnancy that gave her a baby with Down’s Syndrome.
