Founding Fathers on Abortion

ProChoice Argument
14th Amendment
"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
This is a part from the the 14th Amendment and it is important to abortion because of the due process clause. When taking the word liberty it is how you twist and fabricate the word that make it important to abortion. The word liberty some would say means right to privacy. A women being pregnant is a private thing, weather a women aborts or doesn't is a private choice. Then circling back to the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. Which was used in a court case in 1973 Roe v. Wade, Roe was single women that challenged the Texas criminal abortion law. The court ruled that abortion should be regulated but not impossible. The restriction can be in the second and the third trimester to protect the health of the mother.


ProLife Arguments
Declaration of Independence
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
The United States was found on equal rights for all people. The government was instituted that all have secure our unalienable right and that includes life. That is why murder is illegal.Since a fetus has its own heart beat and DNA. The child in question is not part of the mother but more resident of the mothers body for nine months. An abortion is taking another humans life, violating the child's right to life. 


First Amendment
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."
The reason I put this under the ProLife category is because of the way I interpret the First Amendment. Many use the First Amendment as protection for having an abortion because of Freedom of Religion. Meaning they can not be stopped from having an abortion because of religious reasons. People want to know when the seperation of church and government starts. The First Amendment is more to protect the church from the government not the other way around. Examples from the Bible were used in the foundation of the government such as Isaiah 33:22 which says, “For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king…”. That why the government was separated into three branches with three different powers. If the government was founded on church influence, why can't the church influence the government? The separation of state and church were founded because civil authority from ecclesiastical authority, not moral values. Since murder and stealing are two commandment found in the Bible should they also be removed from the constitution because of the separation between church and state?