Many absolutely want the death penalty for abortion, or at least murder level prison sentence.
No amount of logic and reasoning gets to them. No arguments about the value of the mother's life. No arguments about the legal protections of bodily autonomy, and the slippery slope of setting precedent to violate that. No education about the inherent messiness of pregnancy and difficulty to actually tell the difference between a natural miscarriage (medically termed 'spontaneous abortion') and an intentional abortion. No nuance on the chilling effect for doctors who will start to refuse to give women the treatment they need when it risks unintentionally causing a miscarriage.
These people have an extremely underdeveloped concept of morality and ethics, where everything is black and white. And they pose an immense danger of ripping us as a society back into the dark ages of justice.
I say this as someone who was raised deeply religious and ravenously prolife. I marched in protest with life tape over my mouth and in front of abortion clinics as a child. This is really how these people think.
Wake up.
It's not about your body autonomy, it's about taking the life of an unborn child, who clearly does not not belong to your body as he has a different DNA.
If you want body autonomy, you can pull a tooth or cut a finger.
He said the child is distinct from its mother's body from conception. Which is correct.
Because that's what we do with born children when their parents don't want them.
At what point in pregnancy do you believe a fetus becomes a person deserving of protection under the law that violates a woman's right to bodily autonomy and privacy?
If you discover a stowaway on your airplane while you're in the air, you're legally obligated to keep him onboard until you land. This isn't a new right, though, it's just his right to life trumping your right to property.
> At what point in pregnancy do you believe a fetus becomes a person deserving of protection under the law that violates a woman's right to bodily autonomy and privacy?
Fertilization.
Those of us that actually live in the 21st century just look at your belief structure as naive — however we are now in a different phase where your ignorance is causing real harm. I read today that Drs are too scared to prescribe potentially life saving but potentially teratogenic medicine in forced-birth states due to miscarriage risk. Absolutely unacceptable! Get your medieval bullshit out of our modern world.