an unborn or unhatched vertebrate especially after attaining the basic structural plan of its kind; specifically : a developing human from usually two months after conception to birth — compare
Aka its a fetus from the time it leaves embryo stage to the moment its born. Babies can get a birth certificates and social security numbers. Fetuses cannot.
The right to privacy isn’t explicitly in the Constitution, either. Thank the Supreme Court for Griswold.
I don’t know why so many rightwing folks misunderstand the role and function of the Supreme Court, but in its interpretation of the Constitution, it ruled that abortion is a fundamental Constitutional right.
Roe v. Wade, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 1973, ruled (7–2) that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. In a majority opinion written by Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the court held that a set of Texas statutes criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a woman’s constitutional right of privacy, which it found to be implicit in the liberty guarantee of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (“…nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”).
It’s be easier if you just admitted you were incorrect. Now as for a reason for terminating a pregnancy, well those reasons vary by various different degrees. I for one don’t want the government telling me what to do with my body, nor do I want them telling women what to do with theirs.
Hell I recall several people on the old board throwing a fit when New York banned large sodas and that was mundane compared with the ultimate responsibility of bearing a child.