Hm. I see where you got the idea. Majority Rules, but think of the fact that EVERY person, should have the CHOICE to do it or not. If it doesn't affect you, personally, then why care for it? People die every day due to car accidents, are you saying we should have cars only in cities that want cars? No. You know people have died in your city because of car accidents, but do you still want them out? No.
If you want to live somewhere were abortions are illegal, you should have that right unless every town and city has abortions legalized (due to popular demand). You say abortion is a choice, which it is, but murder is also a choice, should that be legalized?
The only difference between murder and abortion is that abortion involved killing a fetus that doesn't even look human before it is born. Even then, many people consider this murder.
The reason why the right to have an abortion should not be national law is not because of moral issues, but because government should not have that much control. We should have a right to control the laws in our towns and cities. If there is a town occupied mostly by Catholics who share a strong belief that abortion is wrong, then a doctor should not be allowed to move into the town and perform abortions when the majority of the people there are against it.
To a larger extent, the same remains true for states. I know plenty of atheists who are against abortion, it's not based off a system of religious beliefs, but off a moral system shared by people as a society.
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, if we allow abortion to be decided by local laws, people who live in areas where abortions are illegal can always go somewhere were they are legal and have their abortion done there. That way, the town who's majority apposes abortion has their way, and the girl gets her way by having an abortion. The only downside is that the girl had to work harder to have her abortion.
The biggest reason why it should be up to the town as a whole is freedom to preserve culture. If there's a community of people who wish to live in a cultural area that reflects their beliefs, they should be allowed to live in said area.
Besides, would you kill one man, I'm talking about an actual person, not an embryo, to save one million other men? I sure as hell would.
Depending on the situation, probably not. There's a difference between killing one person to save a million lives, and killing thousands of fetuses to potentially save millions of lives. Not only that, but your question makes it seem as if I was the single person who had to make such a decision. With stem-cell research, people should be able to choose if they wish to participate in saving lives or not. Those who don't participate will not have blood on their hands (which, if I killed that one man or let the million die, the blood would be on my hands).
If a town/city/hospital does not want to get involved with stem-cell research or abortions, they should not be forced to get involved.
