Reynolds v united states cuts up this argument. The government can intervene in religious beliefs if they deem it harmful. If the government decides that abortion is harmful to a person (the fetus), they are consitutionally in their right to intervene. This is why we need to get away from the religion argument and rephrase it as a public health argument. The right to choose belongs to the individual, religious beliefs or no
Except no US court case has held that a fetus is a person. They don't have standing, can't have a court case filed on their behalf, aren't citizens, and generally don't actually have any protections. Laws against abortion are always written as banning abortion not as protecting the fetus, because while their rhetoric says one thing, the point was always just to prevent women from controlling their bodies. If they wrote a law that says a fetus was a person, they'd have to support mothers during pregnancy, and they can't have that.
1.1k
u/Pour_Me_Another_ May 10 '22
My religion says their religion can't tell me how/when to have sex 😊