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Originally Posted by awareness
How about the matter should be decided by each and every woman?
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Actually we are a democracy, so the matter should be decided by every man and woman. Second, if you read my post which your response indicates you didn't, I said this should be decided by the State, not the Supreme court. If all the residents in the State vote to legalize abortion in that State then that would be constitutional. It is difficult to believe based on various polling data that at least 40% of states wouldn't legalize this. So then if a woman lived in a state where this was illegal, say Mississippi, she would simply drive an hour into Georgia where it might be legal. Doesn't seem like such an inconvenience to uphold our constitution.
The woman has the right to decide whether or not to have sex. She has the right to decide whether or not to use contraception. She has the right to decide whether or not to live in a state where it is illegal or legal and she has the right to travel to a state where it is legal. So how is any of this violating a woman's right to choose?
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Originally Posted by awareness
The rest of your post, where you take it on yourself to define religions for other people, willy-nilly is : whack-a-noodle.
Did you mean it to be that way? Are you playing with us?
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I define religion as a lifestyle. Everyone has a lifestyle, everyone sacrifices for something, worships something.
What is whack a doodle is this pretense that since my beliefs and faith and values shape my politics that somehow they are unconstitutional or that this somehow indicates a support for theocracy.
Every single person has a god, even the atheists. It may be their stomach, it may be Jehovah, or Jesus or Mohammed, or it may be their career, or money, or pleasure, or fornication, etc.
Consider the bank robber, murderer who thinks he doesn't care about God and is atheistic/agnostic. Why are you robbing and murdering? Obviously he values the money in a bank above human life and social norms. That is his god.