What do you think the Founding Fathers would think of abortion?
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« on: August 26, 2017, 09:44:42 AM »

Discuss your opinions, Like Washington,Jefferson, Franklin and etc.
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« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2017, 09:45:40 AM »

They would look at it with absolute horror
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« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2017, 09:54:33 AM »

They would look at it with absolute horror

Just like many of them would look at abolition of slavery (or civil rights generally), gay rights, even suffrage.
What people, no matter how brilliant, thought centuries ago is no indication for what's right.
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« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2017, 10:11:02 AM »

Seeing as early termination of pregnancy occurred at the time and wasn't really controversial they'd probably all qualify as pro-choice. Even the Roman Catholic Church didn't oppose abortion until the mid-19th century.
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« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2017, 10:54:12 AM »

State issue. Certainly not a federal constitutional right, other than congress lacking an enumerated power to regulate it.
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« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2017, 11:11:20 AM »

State issue. Certainly not a federal constitutional right, other than congress lacking an enumerated power to regulate it.
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« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2017, 11:12:55 AM »

What would the founding fathers think of civil rights?
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« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2017, 01:45:58 PM »

What people, no matter how brilliant, thought centuries ago is no indication of what’s right.

Their thoughts, centuries ago, matter if and when we are interpreting a law that they made. For example, what would the expression "a wall of separation between church and state" have meant to our Founding Fathers?
However, since they did not make any law about abortion -- not enacted into the U.S. Constitution -- then the correct answer to the OP is:

State issue. Certainly not a federal constitutional right, other than congress lacking an enumerated power to regulate it.
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« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2017, 02:02:55 PM »

State issue. Certainly not a federal constitutional right, other than congress lacking an enumerated power to regulate it.
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« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2017, 03:38:06 PM »

Seeing as early termination of pregnancy occurred at the time and wasn't really controversial they'd probably all qualify as pro-choice. Even the Roman Catholic Church didn't oppose abortion until the mid-19th century.

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« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2017, 05:36:19 PM »

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« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2017, 06:55:15 PM »

I guess they would have been split right down the middle on this issue.
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« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2017, 07:39:03 PM »

Abortion was generally considered a crime in the common law from the time of "quickening" (i.e. when a woman would be able to feel the movement of the child in the womb).  States began also prohibiting abortion by statute in the 1820s, though it was rarely prosecuted.
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« Reply #13 on: August 27, 2017, 10:30:48 PM »

They would have the same position as me, obviously.
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