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 > Everybody has a right to life but nobody has the right to use someone else's body without consent.

God, or some would say "nature", decided to allow a child to use a woman's body. It is in the nature of being a woman that you may become host for an offspring. That's just the way it is. Just because you don't like it is not justification for murdering your offspring.

"Without consent"? Women know they might get pregnant when they engage in sex. Wouldn't engaging in sex voluntarily, without some kind of non-abortive contraception, be tantamount to implicit consent to get pregnant?

If it is true that abortion is murder, then we have a society full of women that are murderers, which is sociopathic. That's not good for women, or society! If a woman can do that kind of violence to her own innocent offspring, which should be the most tender of relationships, how can we ever expect to reduce or eliminate the violence of the State, and society in general?