Some states protect women's rights

Many of the founding fathers owned slaves, so their opinions on liberty is quite suspect. Also, the founding fathers thought it best for each generation to govern themselves the way they see fit instead of rigidly following dogma laid down by them.

They were fallible humans like anyone else. What we don't do is treat them like deities. Founding Father worship seems to be more of a thing on the Right. I don't support abortion. I support a woman's right to decide things for herself. I wish abortions never occurred, but I also know it is not my right to tell someone else what to do with their bodies.

Oh, please. You must run into a lot of tree branches riding around on that high horse.The founding fathers were human, like us. They had some good ideas, and some bad ideas. They had some ideas that simply didn't pass the test of time. That's fine. No one is trashing the founding fathers. All we are saying is that society has changed, so our laws need to change with it. We certainly aren't saying that we need to get rid of laws altogehter, just change them. Those aren't the same thing.

Everyone concedes that, even SCOTUS as part of the Roe v. Wade decision. Most people are just fine with a ban on elective abortions after the 24th week, the point at which the fetus is viable outside of the womb.For the record, less than 1% of abortions are "partial birth abortions" (D&X), so that is a red herring.

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According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, an abortion-rights research group that conducts surveys of the nation's abortion doctors, about 15,000 abortions were performed in the year 2000 on women 20 weeks or more along in their pregnancies; the vast majority were between the 20th and 24th week. Of those, only about 2,200 D&X abortions were performed, or about 0.2 percent of the 1.3 million abortions believed to be performed that year.
'Partial-Birth Abortion': Separating Fact From Spin : NPR

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