ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES

[rothschild]

Interesting to differentiate the two: abortion rights vs when life starts. Hadn’t heard that angle before.
I definitely align more towards your views on abortion rights.

On the when life begins - I think it’s more complicated.
In Biology class I learned that even sperm are alive! Living organisms. Even before conception.
There’s a whole lot of living things.
Legally, with the Supreme Court Dobbs decision overturning Roe v Wade - they essentially say that the beginning of “Life” is when whoever is leading your state says it is.

Sperm are alive, sperm + ovum = beginning of a new human being, albeit undeveloped. The crux of the matter for me is whether an unborn human being is a person having legal standing in courts of law, and that cannot happen without diminishing the sovereignty of a mother, which I find repugnant. Women are vulnerable to begin with and are far more so during pregnancy. I think the best way to discourage abortion is by creating safer and healthier societies, without government mandates and politicization revolving around religious dogma and the diminishing of the sanctity of life. It's a philosophical matter and by and large this world is a philosophical wasteland, so ethical resolution of complex social issues is an exceptionally rare occurrence.