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The question you asked can be asked about lots of laws (Drunk Driving, Seat Belts, Motorcycle helmets, self mutilation, etc.). In abortion there actually is a third party directly affected - the baby.

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There is no baby. There is an embryo, and then a fetus.

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Many times the arguement comes down to definitions - it's a baby! No it's a fetus! No it's unfeeling protoplasm! I submit that is all irrelevant. Whether a newly fertilized embryo or a full term fetus, it is alive, and that life is worth defending.

Environmental/animal rights activists will go to war to defend the life of a tree, which cannot feel or think. They will commit acts of vandalism and violence to rescue labratory animals, some of which are considered vermin by the population at large (Please note this - I am not speaking of only endangered species). Their position is they are defending those who have no voice, who cannot defend themselves. Yet these individuals almost unfailingly walk in lockstep idealogically with those who support abortion rights. I'd like to see these individuals explain themselves and how they logically came to the conclusion a helpless potential human being deserves no defense while a chicken does.

As for the OP's point, I cannot argue that it has some validity. However, Roe v. Wade being overturned would simply return the decision on abortion to the states themselves, not declare it illegal. The fact that each state would have its own laws on abortion is the part of the attractiveness of the American system. It is not unique to abortion. Gambling is legal in many states but still almost completely forbidden in Utah, Hawaii and Tennessee. While this may seem illogical as their citizens can easily travel to a state that allows gambling, the citizens of these states have said they do not want casinos and the sometimes seedy elements that come along with them. People are free to move to a state whos laws and customs suit them. If the citizens of Alabama do not wish to sanction an act they consider murder within their borders, they should not have to. Even people of little means can afford a bus ticket to an abortion friendly state.