a personal choice or a question of morality?
To commit an abortion, in the sense usually meant, the intentional killing of an unborn human being ("person"), in the USA is a capital crime. Statutes passed by the Congress of the US, the legislatures of the states or of any subordinate body purporting to grant permission to anyone to kill human beings not yet born are invalid as forbidden by the US Constitution. Article I, sections 9 & 10.
The legislators who pass statutes, the president and governors who approve them, and the judges who uphold them are in rebellion against the law of the land, violators of their oaths of office.
Abortion has been forbidden by the law of Moses, by Judaism and by Christianity from the earliest times of both. Other non-Abrahamic religions either prohibit or strongly discourage abortion.
Until Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, abortion in the common sense was prohibited. There were few prosecutions as murder due to the near-impossibility of proof. The murdered victim’s remains had been destroyed. The only witnesses were participants in the crime. Abortions were perpetrated in secret or under the guise of medical therapy ("therapeutic abortion").
Roe v. Wade was a set-up to head off advances in medical technology that make it possible to prosecute some abortions. Roe is bad law on several counts:
• No actual controversy - the principals Norma McCorvey and a hypothetical abortionist) were not being prosecuted
• No actual controversy - by the time Roe reached the Supreme Court, McCorvey was no longer pregnant, if she ever was
• No actual controversy - McCorvey and her lawyers lied to the courts at each level; McCorvey was not seeking an abortion
McCorvey later repented of her evil and petitioned the Court for a reconsideration in which she admitted under oath that she had lied from the beginning. The Court ignored her.
Even pro-abortion lawyers, legal scholars and activists have denounced Roe as bad law, for they see it as a weak foundation for the legalization of elective abortion. The Court strained to ignore the US Constitution and thousands of years of the Judeo-Christian tradition and laws, thousands of years of legal precedent and principles, instead grasping at straws of paganism that approved of abortion, infanticide, abandonment of infants to wild animals, forced prostitution, forcible rape of captured girls and women, and many other abominable customs.
Abortion, infanticide and abandonment are founded upon the concept of "property in man" (human beings). Slavery is founded upon the concept of property in the labor of another, which is less reprehensible as the slave's life is not supposed to be the slaveowner's, only his labor.
Government is founded for the primary purpose of the protection of the lives of those within its jurisdiction. The greatest degree of protection is to be provided to those least able to defend themselves from aggression.
Pro-abortion apologists occasionally bring up citizenship, which is accorded at birth to those natural born. Citizenship is irrelevant, a red herring, as no one professes that those in country who are not citizens, whether guests, permanent residents or trespassers, may be murdered at will with impunity. The Frenchman, the Chinese, the Brazilian who is within the jurisdiction of the United States or of the states is protected by law against murder, robbery, rape and in his/her property.
