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After seeing this thread, I went back and re-read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I didnt' see the word abortion anywhere.
An individual's Constitutional right to keep and bear arms is not clearly there either and was not actually adequately protected until the Supreme court upheld this right in the Heller decision, much the same as an individual's Constitutionally protected right to an abortion was upheld in the decision of Roe V. Wade.
Considering the circumstances of both not being specifically spelled out in the Constitution and only being validated by Supreme Court decisions, it's really intellectually dishonest to attempt to claim one is a Constitutionally protected right while the other is not.
That is, of course, assuming that you agree that the Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms.