Tadpole,

You keep referring to parasitic organisms in this debate. So here's a something to ponder. Those people who rely upon welfare are parasitic organisms. They depend upon the work and taxes of others in order to receive money. Do we have the right to kill them??? Think of the money we could save, since 1960 we have spent almost 7 trillion dollars on the War on Poverty. Since these people really have no quality of life to begin with, and seeing how the Courts in the Teri Schiavo case weighed heavily upon her supposed quality of life, it seems like the perfect solution to ending poverty.

Hev,

You are always looking for an argument from someone who oppose abortion that is not based on our morality because of our religious beliefs. How about this:

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

It would seem that the Constitution was established to protect the liberties of even those who had not yet been born. All too often we forget that the Constitution was established with an understanding that it established a social contract between the living, the dead, and those yet to be born. Since the Constitution was ordained to secure the blessings of liberty, and the 5th Amendment guarantees the no one should be deprived of life without due process, I could argue that abortion is therefore illegal under the 5th Amendment of the Constitution, and furthermore, through the incorporation of the 14th Amendment due process clause this protection extends to the States.

How about that, a Constitutional argument against abortion without the use of morality.

dmk