re: What amazes me about the abortion issue....

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Wait, what? Abortion bans aren’t about legal classifications? Then why criminalize it?

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Let's put it another way:

The burden of proof isn't on my to affirm legal protections, or to affirm citizenship. It's for you to prove why they aren't citizens.

And your answer is not, "Because they don't have a document." Because they didn't have a document before and were assumed to be citizens.

For the vast majority of time 1) Babies were humans 2) Those humans were citizens. The country operated like this since it's inception. No one questioned the life in the womb, and no one questioned that that person was a citizen. And all laws that had been crafted aligned with that.

It's only recently that it changed, and only because we wanted the right to kill people. But there's never been good rational proof on that - only very modern relative "muh body my choice," stuff. It's never been about either some legal classification or even science. It's a pure emotional request that has never been proven out.