Yes. I know I’m a guy. And that sometimes women would prefer that men stop telling them what to do with their bodies when it comes to babies. But, since I am an active supporter of a woman’s right to choose, I thought, maybe I could get away with adding one more pro-choice voice... So, here goes.

For 8 years, the right’s single biggest Obamacare complaint is how it puts the government between a patient and their health care provider. That relationship, they say, is sacrosanct. Like the one between an investor and his banker in the Cayman Islands. And yet… And YET – while Republicans demand the government not interfere with patients and their health care provider, they simultaneously insist that the government MUST MUST MUST interfere with a patient and their health care provider…

If that patient is a pregnant woman who chooses to get an abortion.

With Trump’s election, the long dormant pro-life movement, itself on life support, has been resuscitated. #bad

Conservative legislators in 14 states have proposed 46 new bills to severely restrict or make abortions illegal… New laws will demand doctors make women listen to a fetus’ heartbeat before performing an abortion. Doctors will have to tell women that life begins at conception. And in Arkansas, men will be allowed to sue a woman they’ve gotten pregnant to stop them from having an abortion – even if they raped her. And it’s only the middle of February. Imagine the draconian legislation they could conjure in a month with 31 days!

On February 11, 2017, hundreds of thousands of Americans who believe dinosaurs and Jesus walked the earth simultaneously, took to the streets to demand everyone else abide by their alternative understanding of science and medicine as they demonstrated against Planned Parenthood.

Looking at the demonstrators signs, I discovered they have dozens of reasons why pregnant women must, by the rule of law, carry an unplanned or unwanted baby to term. I decided to fact check them.

People who are pro-life say Abortion is Murder. Is it?

The definition of murder is very clear. 18 US Code 1111 says that “murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought.”

So, lets see how much of that applies to abortion. Let’s start with the words: “Unlawful killing.”

Since abortion was made legal in 1973, it clearly is NOT an “unlawfull killing.”

A fetus also isn’t a human being. According to 1 US Code 8: “…the word “human being” shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development.”

Since a fetus is inside a woman’s womb at the time of the abortion procedure, it has very clearly NOT been born alive. So, it is clearly not yet a human being.

“Malice aforethought” is a legal term of art that describe an evil and depraved state of mind in which a person is unconcerned for the lives of others.

In this instance, both the doctor performing the abortion and the mother DO have a concern for the life of an “other”: That “other” is the mother. And their concern is: Is she old enough to carry a baby to term, can she nurture a child, provide it a safe and proper home, is she mentally sound, stable, ready?

So, abortion IS NOT murder. And just so you know, “homicide” and manslaughter don’t apply, either. I checked.

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Jon Hotchkiss is the host of Be Less Stupid, which you can see free @ http://factbox.tv