Should the government stop abortions?

[devonin]

You know, I'm starting to think that the phrasing of the question is all wrong here. by asking "Should" the government stop abortions, we're losing ourselves in the morass of "Is abortion right, wrong, neither or both"

Instead ask: Does the government have the -right- to make abortions illegal, and the only question is "Is there a point at which the fetus has rights that -supercede- that of the mother's right to control her own body" and whether you think abortion is right or wrong, I'm much more apt to say that "The government has no right to say one way or the other" than I am to say "The action itself is morally ok or morally not ok, so they should or shoudln't."