Abortion isn't necessarily a conservative/liberal stance, although party-wise it's been supported by democrats and opposed by republicans.
This is true, but they're both incorrect stances.
Republicans say the unborn fetus is a life. The Democrats say women have a right to do whatever they wish with their bodies.
Both statements, while true, don't actually get to the crux of the issue. Republicans are wrong to address what a life is, and Democrats err on the side of women's rights because the truly consistent argument in favor of the pro-choice stance would discredit their views on "animal rights".
Abortion must be a medical practice protected by government force, because by definition, an unborn and undeveloped fetus is not a human life, and therefore has no rights. Nothing except for a human being has rights. Not all living things have rights. Trees, dogs, and elephants all are completely incapable of possessing rights. Again, only humans can have rights. A month-old fetus is not a human, but a
potential human. It is not a human if the fetus has not developed its rational faculties.
What are rational faculties? I can't stress this
accepted definition enough: having rational faculties means possessing a fully-formed mind and body that, as aging progresses, is able to facilitate the mental development into a functioning human brain. That brain, when fully-functioning, is the
very thing that defines human beings and makes them categorically unique. The one characteristic that identifies humans as being human. In other words, if a fetus has developed to the point where it will grow, age, and mature (mentally) properly, then it is a human being and has rights. For this reason, most abortions would be not only morally acceptable but also perfectly legal in the Constitutional sense. We get into very murky waters indeed when we address the
specific aspects of late-term abortions. I am on the side that says such procedures are essentially the intentional murder of another human being, but only when it can be proven (and it can be, easily) that the fetus would have otherwise developed into a fully-functioning human with its rational faculties in tact. I've personally never heard of a late-term abortion performed for the reason of saving the mother from inescapable injury or death, but I'm not an expert on that particular subject.
It's really as simple as that. Republicans are too blinded by religious nonsense to understand that very basic truth. Democrats are too disintegrated, philosophically, to approach this aspect of the topic. Because then those Democrats/liberals who advocate laws to "protect the rights" of animals, and social programs for the mentally handicapped - both of which do not possess the rational faculties required to be considered protected by the individual rights guaranteed to all human beings - would need to answer for their inconsistencies.
