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Originally Posted by Wildbore";p="
Actually, protecting life is not the duty of the state. If that was the states duty, there would be no wars, no killing of animals for human consumption, no capitol punishment and no state-sponsored assassinations. The state does not view all living things equally, therefore, its duty is to protect what it feels has value.
Anyway you feel, the government is bound by the constitution to protect peoples fundimental rights.
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Wars are necesary to protect life for our own protection. It is a necesary aspect of our own survival. If we just sat around after Japan attacked us in WW2, how can you say that the government was protecting life. Your argument is laughable.
The death penatly is used as a deterrant for those who brutally murder other people. Those who commit such acts forfeit their own right to live.
A fetus has done nothing wrong, it just wants to live and to grow to be a fully grown human. The state should provide for it's protection over a woman's right to privacy. The fact that a few SC justices thought a right to privacy is more important than the right to life according to the Constitution is just absurd.