Comment Re:ACLU apply their standards *very* unevenly (Score 1) 259
The modern constitutional doctrine is really quite clear: once the child is "viable" it is protected as a person. Before that, it is part of the mother.
Strictly speaking, this is not very good biology, as well, different DNAs, etc, but it does provide the same level of protection that a dying man with tubes in every every body cavity has--both he and the child are on life support and are therefore not fully protected.
There are differences (the dying man is terminal, the child is not), but this has really been decided. The majority of Americans now support abortion and the Court has upheld this in numerous decisions.
As a further aside, you must remember that the ACLU sees this as a right which deserves protecting: the right to privacy. So saying that they are abridging rights is true, but they are protecting the rights of mothers at the cost of unviable fetus' rights.
Strictly speaking, this is not very good biology, as well, different DNAs, etc, but it does provide the same level of protection that a dying man with tubes in every every body cavity has--both he and the child are on life support and are therefore not fully protected.
There are differences (the dying man is terminal, the child is not), but this has really been decided. The majority of Americans now support abortion and the Court has upheld this in numerous decisions.
As a further aside, you must remember that the ACLU sees this as a right which deserves protecting: the right to privacy. So saying that they are abridging rights is true, but they are protecting the rights of mothers at the cost of unviable fetus' rights.
