Too Many Inconsistencies on Abortion

In this country, if a woman is pregnant and is shot dead, the killer will, more than likely, be charged with a double homicide. Yet, any person who aborts a fetus is not a killer.

Generally speaking, the latter is not a crime because it all has to do with a "woman's right to choose".

I personally don't know where a woman's "right" to choose is actually written down. Our constitution doesn't define that right. It isn't specifically defined in the Bill of Rights. However, I do know that the phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" appears in the Declaration of Independence and, to me, abortion takes those supposed inalienable rights away from an unborn person who is being aborted. If a "woman's right to choose" is a real right, and not a privilege, than it should be irrevocable. After all, it is a supposed "right." With that in mind, there should be no point in time at which a child could not be disposed of. In theory, that also means that the right exists beyond a child's birth. But, as a society, we have decided to revoke that right in the third trimester. So, therefore, one could argue that it isn't really a right.

I find it interesting that the same people who support and promote abortion are against capital punishment. In the case of the unborn being aborted, the right to life is being taken away through no fault of that fetus. In the case of a known killer, the right to his or her life is maintained because, basically, we have no right to take someone else's life. How confusing is that?

I realize that abortion is the law of this land. However, I think it contradicts the basic foundations on which this country was built. It is interesting that laws can be written to override rights that we want to afford everyone in America; whether born or unborn. Even more disconcerting is the fact that a set of humans, our Supreme Court, can so easily decide to take the lives away from the unborn. And, for sure, the unborn are at a disadvantage because they can't vote.