For those who think abortion is wrong, where do they draw the line?

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56. But we compel parents who have children

to pay child support. Parents who neglect their children can be charged with a crime.

We charge anyone who kills a child once they are born.

The utilitarian solution is to allow unfettered access to abortion. I guess some argument could be made that if societal resources are expended getting the child to 8 months 30 days, then going the extra day makes the most sense.

Does an eight month old fetus who I think everyone would agree is sentient have any sort of rights? How different is the expectation that a pregnant woman serve as an incubator for another month a more severe assault on the 13th amendment than expecting a parent to be obligated to 18 years of support after the birth?

As a side note. The death of a fetus caused by a third party's aggression was considered a property crime in the Bible. Also the Bible clearly advocates the forced abortion of a fetus conceived by adultery - viewing the conception of such a child as a crime against the husband. God's hands are far from clean in this debate.

I personally would keep the state out of this debate. It serves my interests that unwanted children are not brought into the world. Still I feel an uneasy guilt about allowing sentient human beings to be killed.