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b_b · 1394 days ago · link · · parent · post: What if the Supreme Court Rules on Abortion and the Country Shrugs?
It isn't a religious argument; it's a philosophical argument, but many anti-abortionists' philosophy is grounded in their religious beliefs. There's a big difference though. Abortion has to be illegal at some point, because otherwise you could abort a fetus up to the moment of delivery. I don't think that anyone is arguing in favor of that, so we need some definition of what an unabortable fetus is. We all know that line exists somewhere between conception and birth, but who knows where. It's supposed to be the point of reasoned democracy to find that water level. However, the left is almost as guilty as the right in their reticence to talk definitions, since we're arguing dogma not policy when we argue about abortion as a binary.