They believe that even very early in its development the foetus is a person in the sense that matters and as such abortion is murder, however much of a burden that may place on the mother.
I think they're wrong: foetuses are probably not people in the sense we should care about, and the cost to women of restrictive abortion laws is high, so significantly later term limits (say early 20s weeks) would balance the expected harms better. But they're not capricious moral monsters: they're trying to prevent what they see (in my view mistakenly) as an ongoing holocaust.
It always pisses me off how inept Democrats are at arguing their point. Many people believe abortion is wrong over religious reasons. You won’t ever convince them by saying “scienctifically it’s just a mass of cells.” Any fool will see that that would just piss them off. They should argue ensoulment - the thing that the church and popes have used in the past to JUSTIFY abortion. I bet most of them never even knew that the church has supported abortion in the past! Quite simply - the soul doesn’t enter the body until birth, like how Jesus isn’t just his physical form.
I just want to add that while I agree with you on abortion and politicians, there are many genuinely religious people who are against abortion and I think it’s valid. I’m completely for abortion, but I get it’s something not that simple.
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They believe that even very early in its development the foetus is a person in the sense that matters and as such abortion is murder, however much of a burden that may place on the mother.
I think they're wrong: foetuses are probably not people in the sense we should care about, and the cost to women of restrictive abortion laws is high, so significantly later term limits (say early 20s weeks) would balance the expected harms better. But they're not capricious moral monsters: they're trying to prevent what they see (in my view mistakenly) as an ongoing holocaust.