Consider that this proposition, after decades of prodding by good - government groups, was drawn up by a legislature
whose fundamental purpose is to maintain its majorities.
And even more fundamentally, if we are bearers of inviolable dignity and a basic right to life in virtue of our humanity, and not in virtue of accidental qualities such as age, or size, or stage of development or condition of dependency --- if, in other words, we believe in the
fundamental equality of human beings --- how can a right to abortion (where «abortion» means performing an act
whose purpose is to cause fetal death) be defended at all?