Abortion and Women's Rights

Abortion has nothing to do with women's rights.  Murder is not a right. 

Women are more than half of the citizens of this country, and they have a fundamental right to control their own bodies and lives. They are unique in that they produce children and men cannot, but it is a complicated process, a physical condition fraught with various risk, and the birthing process may even result in the death of the mother. In all of the animal kingdom, including primates, not every conception results in a successful birth or rearing of young. Survival rates and various physical factors as well as environment and family support or lack of it, are factored in the DNA. In other words, nature provides that a certain percentage of conceptions result in increasing the population, and a certain percentage results in failed pregancy or infant mortality. That is natural law.

Christian Fundamentalists have twisted this natural law to attempt to have every conception from every fertile female in the world result in the production of another human being. That means no condoms, no contraception pills, no morning after pills, and no abortion.

Women are not rabbits. Women are not cats in heat. Women are not "hosts" to a fetus. Women are human beings with rights, and they have the right to control their bodies and lives.

I would propose, that if anyone disagrees with that, if they think that it is against "God", or against the patriarchy, then let them go back to a pre-modern age where half of all fetuses and children were claimed by miscarriage, accidents, ignorance & superstition, disease, neglect and starvation, and never made it to adulthood anyway.