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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze
Ah, got ya. It really sucks how much "morality" is pushed onto people. Where is that freedom we are always hearing about?
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Well, their argument is the fetus, zygote, etc. is a life from the moment of conception and that life has freedoms which must be protected as well. Interestingly, the Court in Roe agreed with this line of thinking. But, in Roe, the Court held that the state's interest in protecting the life of the unborn outweighs the mother's right to privacy only when the fetus is viable outside of the womb, which the Court after a long discussion found was after the first trimester.
Roe really was a landmark case in many ways, the least of which was expanding a right not specifically found in the Const.