Discuss the issue of legal recognition of unborn children and its implications on abortion rights.
Under the law, the unborn child is not recognized as a person in the first trimester. Only the federal government can make that recognition. Until it does, states cannot legislate on its behalf, which is the essence of privacy. Until the movement accepts this as fact, because legally it is, it is either deliberately ignorant or committing fraud. That is the obvious. I am not saying this because I like abortion rights but because until this question is faced, abortion contiues. Because federal action is necessary to recognize the unborn and because abortion is a private action, rather than action of government, the right to not be aborted is a postiive right rather than a negative right. Negative rights can be declared, and the impact is automatic. Positive rights require legislative action to secure. Again, there is a problem in the first trimester having to do with miscarriage. Until you can formulate language which stops abortion and does not implicitly include tort relief or