Merely repeating your opinion does not clarify it. You have been asked many times to explain why you believed that a "human life started in the womb" should be entitled to protection until birth. How is it of benefit to society to force women to carry a pregnancy to full term, especially if the woman hosting the pregnancy does not want that?
I never said it did or did not benefit society. Is that your criteria? It is not mine.
Then what is your criterion? I don't care what your personal feelings are about pregnancies, family planning, or the sexual behavior of others. That is your business. But government in the US is only empowered to pass laws that have a constitutional basis. The Preamble makes clear that the purpose of the Constitution is to benefit society--"in Order to
form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." If a law provides no benefit to society, how is the government able to restrict the freedom of a woman and her doctors dealing with an unwanted pregnancy? It has a bearing on her physical and mental health, not yours.
You can refuse to answer all you want, but it is a fair question that goes unanswered. You clearly have no religious motivation, so what makes that life sacred to you?
Life is sacred. It is because it is short and there is no afterlife that makes it valuable. I am happy I was born and am able to experience this life. Most people are.
I don't know what "sacred" means to you. Normally, we associate sacredness with a religious conviction. You believe, as well as I do, that there is no beforelife or afterlife, just life in between birth and death. By your logic, all fertilized eggs are entitled to go through development in a womb and be born, despite the wishes of the mature adult citizen hosting them, if they happen to get attached to the wall of a uterus. They don't even have to have developed brains. How does this serve any purpose or benefit to society? Do you think that laws can just be arbitrary restrictions that some body of legislators decides to impose on a whim?
Then you shift from disapproval of all abortions to a position that it's ok to require women to face the expense and difficulty of leaving their state for an abortion. Everyone knows you oppose abortions, no matter what state they are in. The only reasonable conclusion we can come to is that you want obstacles put in the way of a woman who seeks a legal abortion. Knowing that she may be thwarted in getting the medical treatment gives you a sense of satisfaction, apparently. It is disingenuous to act as if no women will have pregnancies forced on them by an out-of-state requirement. We know from history that many will seek health-threatening alternative solutions, including back-alley abortions locally, when travel to another state is extremely difficult or impossible for them.
I get no satisfaction out of an abortion or of a woman being on this situation. That is a tactic your side uses all the time, make me into a dirtbag so you can dismiss my ideas. You dismiss the fact that I believe it is a human life that is being killed.
I don't think that you are a dirtbag, and this has nothing to do with a "side". I said that it was reasonable to assume that you derived some satisfaction from the status quo--requiring women in some states to either give birth or seek an abortion out of state. I dismiss your argument, because you fail to give any reasonable justification for your belief that pregnant women be required to carry a pregnancy to term, despite their desire not to. Life being "sacred" to
you alone seems to be the only justification you can come up with for applying these imposed pregnancies on women. As you point out, life is short, so why make pregnant women suffer because of your personal feeling about how they should deal with their pregnancies? They face a short life as much as you do--perhaps even shorter because of the ability of anti-abortionists to expose them to risky conditions of pregnancy.
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