My views on abortion have narrowed. SCOTUS just voted to take up a case involving a Mississippi law, as I broadly understand it, outlawing abortions after 15 weeks with exceptions for health of the mother and a deformed fetus.
Broadly, I can’t think why this law is objectionable. Many European countries have earlier cut off dates.
I mean there is a living human being in there.
Much earlier I can see, somewhere, maybe, in the early part of the 2nd trimester. But even that’s bugging me now as too late.
BTW, I don’t think Roe v Wade is wrongly decided. To say the US Constitution doesn’t speak about abortion is a wretched literalism: if it protects privacy rights and liberty, then what could be more private and more a matter of one’s liberty than deciding what to do with your own body?
It’s just that at a certain point, the issues involves more than women’s autonomy over their bodies.
15 weeks, a baby is in there, quite on the way to being fully formed. Check out the image yourselves.
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