The Justices spar over the constitutionality of the death penalty

[GMDino]

This type of discussion is what I call "mental masturbation". It feels good to get it all out but it really doesn't do much.

Abortion is legal. The person who can legally make the choice to end a pregnancy of the fetus she is carrying is the mother of the fetus. The fetus is surviving in and because of her body sustaining it. She has the right, legally, to have the pregnancy ended. That decision will result in the termination of the development of the fetus which may have formed a human being at some point or may have spontaneously miscarried or been deformed or a multitude of other possibilities.

The other law from 2004 says that if someone ELSE kills the fetus they will held accountable. No one outside can decide to end the development of the fetus.

An apple...an orange.

There has been some movement to try and hold mothers more responsible. Laws that will charge them with harming the fetus if they use drugs or smoke. This falls under the second law. Its also a not so thinly veiled attempt to "prove" that a fetus is a human being and therefore abortion should be illegal.

Even those who support abortion as a right (mostly and generally) do not want fetuses aborted beyond a certain point in their development. I'm sure there are fringe people that feel differently...there always is.

So you can be against it, you can think its awful, but it is not your choice, legally, to make. That choice comes down tot he person whose body is hosting the fetus.