Originally Posted By: afsaneh77
Originally Posted By: Faithful1
Regarding what a person does to themselves in privacy doesn't wash either. Take for example a mentally disturbed person cuts off her own hand, or nose. Is she going to be left alone because of her privacy rights? I let you answer that one.


Abortion clearly is not what a person does to herself, it's what's being done to her, at her choice, by a healthcare professional. Are trying to say that women wanting abortion are mentally disrupted? Wow. Are those who refuse to give body part to their children are mentally disrupted as well? It's their obvious right.


Clearly a person is morally disturbed, to coin a phrase, if they are willing to kill their own child, and often mentally disturbed as well. As for it being a right, that's only because a certain US Supreme Court decided that way. If it decided the other way it wouldn't be a FEDERAL legal right. As such, rights that are given can easily be taken away. Moreover, just because it's a right doesn't make it morally good. If a right is nothing more than a choice, then it is a right to rob a bank. However, that doesn't make it the right thing to do in a moral sense.