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But we aren't. What if it brings me happiness to use my body as a weapon and kill other people whom I don't like. Am I free to do that? No.You are always free to make that decision as a male or female and what you do with your body. Unless you want others to make that decision for you?
As good Americans, we all agree we have the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Yet, each of these rights can be, and are limited. If I'm a kleptomaniac and my pursuit of happiness depends upon me being able to indiscriminately steal from stores, then my pursuit of happiness is limited because I am not allowed to do that. If I do it anyway, then my right to liberty will be temporarily suspended as I will be placed in jail. Sometimes a crime can be so bad that our rights to liberty and even life may be permanently taken away.
So in the case of abortion, it is incorrect to assert that it is a women's rights issue. You're begging the question by stating that a woman is free to do what she wants with her body. Because can she? Is it possible that pregnancy would be one of those times where the right to pursuit of happiness is limited? The answer to that question is based entirely upon the nature of the life inside the womb. If there exists inside a woman's womb a human being created in the image of God that possesses inherent moral worth and value, then just as it is morally wrong for you to kill me, it would be morally wrong for someone to kill them.
Every single one us agree that it would be wrong for a mother to kill her 3 year old daughter because she was just too much work for her. The same would be true for the unborn child inside a womb if that child possessed inherent moral worth and value.
Abortion is not a women's rights issue. It's a human life value issue.
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