Abortion Solution -

Sacred Human Life Begins at Birth

Jewish Reformed belief

Abortion is a Religious/Human Rights /Public health issue and it transcends states’ rights.

Religious

Reform Judaism holds “that pregnant individuals should have complete responsibility and autonomy over whether to terminate a pregnancy – whether or not that individual’s life is at risk“

The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion. Any restriction on abortion prevents a Jewess from exercising her religious belief. That is a strong, though not sufficient, argument for allowing abortion. A religious view like that is prohibited by the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the US Constitution from being the sole basis of law.

Project 2025 asserts that a person has an immortal soul that begins at conception; that abortion is murder. That too is a religious belief and is also irrelevant to legislation.

The United States has always been a secular nation , so neither belief could be given preference, anyway.

63% of the nation, 25% of white Evangelicals, 64% of white non-Evangelicals, 71% of black protestants, 59% of Catholics, and 80% of religiously unaffiliated people believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

The Christians who don’t believe in abortion can, in good conscience, adopt the Jewish Reformed belief that sacred human life begins at birth. They can justify it by considering that they already ignore scores of Bible verses and they can interpret or ignore a few others without affecting their fundamental beliefs.

Human rights

Most women want the right to chose when or whether to have a child.

Public health

It makes no sense to jeopardize the mental or physical health of a woman for the welfare of a potential person.

A good compromise is to allow abortion only until the third trimester or the health of the mother is endangered.

Conclusion

The human rights and public health arguments are strong enough that there’s no need for a constitutional amendment. Federal legislation with nationwide jurisdiction is all that’s needed.

Enforcement

An abortion should be made freely available to anyone who wants it, so It’s difficult to imagine that anyone would wait long enough to break the law. There shouldn’t be any need to set up an enforcement bureaucracy.

So much for abortion. Now we can move on to other problems.