It is a huge mistake to allow leftists to cast abortion in religious terms. Is religion relevant to abortion? Sure it is. It’s also relevant to other public policy matters like tax policy, the 2nd Amendment, etc., but we don’t support our arguments on those by saying “Jesus said so.” Every pro-lifer ought to be able to make a case against abortion on secular scientific & human-rights grounds.
Actually, I have observed that the liberals actually make more religious arguments on abortion — they talk about how it is impossible to determine “personhood” or when a baby gets a “soul” — these are nebulous, metaphysical concepts that are deliberately injected to cloud the issue. When a liberal starts talking this way, we should cut them off & say that their religious beliefs have no business being codified in law.
Of all the countless times I’ve asked those who argue for abortion (or compromise with it) simple questions about which of their own unalienable rights they’re willing to give up, using their own “logic,” I’ve never had one give an answer. They invariably slink away into silence.
The arguments from equality cuts to the bone.
Which of course is in keeping with the stated purpose of our Constitution: “to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves AND our posterity.”
The Founders put the rights of those not yet born on an equal plane with their own rights.
“If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”