Gosh, with Richard Cohen's initial support of the Iraq War, with his belief that it is no big deal to out a CIA agent, with his assertion that women do not have an inherent right to control their own bodies, it looks like lately he's been bending over so backward he's fallen right off his chair.
I guess that for him, a man's home is his castle, but a woman's body is still a place where government soldiers have the right of trespass. (see his latest column on the subject--http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/19/AR2005101901974.html)
Guess what. Abortion was legal when they wrote the Constitution. And the Catholic Church also said it was okay back then. You can even be a so-called originalist and believe that. Because it is not a matter of faith. It is a fact.
And for the record, yes, many of those who stand up for Roe v. Wade WOULD also argue that drug use and prostitution should be legalized. And marriage equality for gays. And even alcohol use. Heck, I'll go out on a limb and say that even though our founding fathers wouldn't have said so, African Americans have the right to control their own bodies and slavery is wrong too!
We don't have to believe that drug use or prostitution is okay--believe me, I don't believe that. And abortion is not like having a tooth pulled. But these are moral issues about what people do with their own bodies.
It is okay to have a moral debate. But government has no right to intervene except when they are protecting someone's freedom of self. And legally, unless we hurt other human beings (and a fetus is NOT a human being, any more than an embryonic stem cell is) the government has to get off our backs. Freedom is the issue here. Freedom to do as you like as long as what you do is done with consenting adults.
Because, after all, in this country a person's home IS his/her castle. It says that, right there in the constitution. (Okay, what it really says is "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...." But it's the same thing.)