> "it's that the rights and protections Roe provides women will be lost, which will unquestionably cost some women their lives"
You and I agree on that.
However, for those who believe that a fetus is a human being, the number of fetuses "killed" each year VASTLY outnumbers the number of women's lives to be saved, by many order of magnitu…
> "it's that the rights and protections Roe provides women will be lost, which will unquestionably cost some women their lives"
You and I agree on that.
However, for those who believe that a fetus is a human being, the number of fetuses "killed" each year VASTLY outnumbers the number of women's lives to be saved, by many order of magnitude. So the argument that legal abortion will save some women's lives does not hold much traction as a resolving principle.
"However, for those who believe that a fetus is a human being,"
Again, you're weighing faith claims against concrete realities. That's why I think this argument is a non-starter.
None of us is qualified to pinpoint the moment that a foetus becomes endowed with the full rights of a human being (although we don't currently extend any rights to foetuses until they're born), but I think that except for "life of the mother" exceptions, first trimester abortions were accepted by the vast majority of people as a workable compromise between the potential rights of the foetus and the actual rights of the mother.
We're only having this conversation now because the rights of the mother are being overruled entirely.
> "it's that the rights and protections Roe provides women will be lost, which will unquestionably cost some women their lives"
You and I agree on that.
However, for those who believe that a fetus is a human being, the number of fetuses "killed" each year VASTLY outnumbers the number of women's lives to be saved, by many order of magnitude. So the argument that legal abortion will save some women's lives does not hold much traction as a resolving principle.
"However, for those who believe that a fetus is a human being,"
Again, you're weighing faith claims against concrete realities. That's why I think this argument is a non-starter.
None of us is qualified to pinpoint the moment that a foetus becomes endowed with the full rights of a human being (although we don't currently extend any rights to foetuses until they're born), but I think that except for "life of the mother" exceptions, first trimester abortions were accepted by the vast majority of people as a workable compromise between the potential rights of the foetus and the actual rights of the mother.
We're only having this conversation now because the rights of the mother are being overruled entirely.