Are you proposing the answer is whenever wrong-doing occurs, point to other wrongs and therefore the wrong being discussed should continue? Or is this a play to distract and change the subject?
Who determined that it's wrong for a woman to end her pregnancy early? What's RICH is these self-righteous Christians pretending to care about embryos and fetuses in other people's wombs, while not giving a rats-booty, about the needs of the woman who is pregnant, maybe of limited means, who is supporting herself through her job, and now she's being forced to remain pregnant and carry that life in her womb for nine months. Are the Christians going to help her pay her bills when she loses her job due to her pregnancy? You're forcing her to remain pregnant through the heavy hand of government.
These are the same people whining about the government mandating them to wear a mask in crowded, public venus, in the middle of a deadly, nationwide pandemic, because supposedly the government doesn't have a right to force them to put something on their faces (bodies). These same Christian "liberty rebels", "super-patriots", who hate everything about the government, turn right around and use the authority of the government to force women to remain pregnant, by criminalizing abortion. Your "pro-life" position is actually pro-death. You create more pain and suffering, including death by forcing women to remain pregnant and give birth to human beings that will now become wards of the states. Many children aren't adopted.
Do you want to see where many foster children end up? Here:
How is that "pro-life"? Women should have the bodily autonomy to decide, at least early in their pregnancy, if they're going to remain pregnant or not. It should be up to the woman to decide that, not the government or Christian hypocrites who pretend to care about fetuses in other people's wombs.
These holy-rollers defund government programs that help the poor raise their children and provide healthcare, food, housing, job training and employment opportunities, daycare..etc. Many of these women who want to end their pregnancies early, are poor and don't have the means to raise a child (or another child), hence if she is forced to carry what is in her womb to term, for nine long months, giving birth to a baby, that human being, will go into foster care. A hard life of neglect.
There is a high prevalence of violence in foster care homes, including sexual abuse. That's what you are subjecting these children to, who will grow up in that environment and when released at the age of 18, are much more likely to end up homeless or in prison. Where is the "pro-life" in this unnecessary reality that you've created out of spite for women who have premarital sex or that you deem harlots? You want to punish the "harlots", by forcing them to remain pregnant and give birth to children that aren't going to be properly cared for. You are not pro-life, you're pro-death.
The fact that what is in the womb, is alive, doesn't mean it's a human being. Christians reduce human beings to zygotes, embryos, and underdeveloped fetuses. They equate this:
A potential human being isn't an actual human being. Any more than a potential adult is an actual adult. If a five year old child dies in a car accident, that child isn't identified as an adult. A child died in the accident, with his parents. His parents were adults, and their child wasn't. A zygote, embryo or under-developed fetus, isn't a human being. Even Jewish law, based on the Hebrew Tenach and rulings of the Sanhedrin (the judges and now the rabbis), doesn't equate an embryo or an under-developed fetus, as a human being and citizen of the nation of Israel (a member of the community).
According to the Torah, a pregnant woman can be executed. Even burned alive. The fetus is considered part of the woman's body. It's not a separate human being. At least not early in the pregnancy, before the fetus takes the full form of a baby. The rabbis debated this. Some rabbis believed that life in the womb isn't a human being until it's out of its mother and takes its first breath.
These "pro-life" Christians think they're honoring human life by forcing women to remain pregnant, even in early gestation, and that's
WRONG.
Women should have bodily autonomy when it comes to reproduction and pregnancy. They decide, whether to remain pregnant or not. If the embryo or under-developed fetus has an eternal, divinely given soul or spirit, then that soul gets a free ticket to heaven or your deity can place that human soul in another womb, of a woman that wants a baby.
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