That's a great point. I think the difference is this: While the woman is still pregnant, the fetus is a sort of possession. I think that because it cannot live without her, she sort of can choose to stop keeping it alive. Kinda similar to that whole life support thing that happened a couple of years ago.

On the other hand, if someone kills a mother while she is pregnant, he has made a decision to prevent a life that was not his to make.

I think also that it's kind of an excuse used to give murderers a more severe sentence.

I know that these reasons are a little sketchy. I think that these are just the justifications, if you like, for what goes on. The bottom line is that this is a hard choice:
-Does the government have the right to prevent a woman from getting an abortion?
-Is abortion the same as murdering a post-birth child?

Frankly, this is just a topic that is to evenly split. About the same number of people are pro-choice as are pro-life, so a law going one way or the other will upset half of the country. That's too close for the government to say one way or the other.

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