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b_b  ·  1375 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What if the Supreme Court Rules on Abortion and the Country Shrugs?

You're making my point for me without even realizing it. What constitutes when a baby can live outside the womb? It's not a binary, and even if it were it would be different for every individual. Everyone develops at a different rate, and devices and protocols for keeping babies alive outside the womb at earlier and earlier stages continue to push the boundary further back. This is a friend's wife. That kid is now 2.5 years old and basically healthy. So should the goalpost be moved to 23 weeks? Should the goalpost be moved every time a miracle baby survives an unexpected early delivery? This is a question for the law (that it, us) to decide collectively, and tons of secular people think that viable fetuses shouldn't be aborted, so your statement is wrong, since even most pro-life religious people aren't absolutists. (Actually it isn't even wrong, it's nonsense.)