In an op-ed for USA today, published May 31, 2019, Bill Weld made a statement on his support for reproductive rights saying,
“I have always been and will always be what the political world calls “pro-choice.”…
What I strenuously object to is a group of government officials getting together to make sweeping ontological assumptions about the prenatal vesting of human rights and then using these assumptions as an excuse to step into people’s personal lives. Both Alabama’s and Georgia’s recent anti-abortion laws put forward the hypothesis that unborn fetuses are persons or human beings entitled to legal protection. But this is their hypothesis — a position they have chosen to adopt, not an indisputable and scientifically proven fact. Frankly, this is religion, not science.
Every individual should be entitled to believe anything he or she chooses to believe — but no one person or group of people should be allowed to subject others to a legally binding system of crime and punishment that is founded upon personal beliefs rather than upon constitutional law.”
