The pro-life position has always recognized the priority of the mother’s life in any medical treatment. Christian ethics have always espoused this viewpoint as well. To insinuate the opposite as Ms. Carter has done is a lie. The Texas law prohibiting abortion has this exception.
One problem (I say as someone who is pro-life and also respects diversity and stare decisis) is that what is being regulated as "abortion" is a medical procedure. This procedure is used in many cases other than as a means of after-the-fact birth control. It is used in ectopic pregnancies and incomplete miscarriages (which can nevre result in a baby being born. It is used for children who cannot safely gestate a baby (physically or emotionally). Doctors are refusing or delaying appropriate medical care for fear of being prosecuted. Where is the line between the life of the mother and the health of the mother? These kinds of medical decisions cannot be made in legislatures by non-doctors and applied to every patient's circumstances. And why are many of those politicians now seeking to restrict birth control, an obvious way to reduce many abortions? I live my own life in accordance with my religious beliefs, but politicans in a pluralistic society are not free to do the same with laws that apply to everyone. My religious beliefs oppose the death penalty, the civilian access to weapons of war, the refusal to lend a helping hand to the poor and oppressed, the idolotry of wealth and power instead of the humble service and love for all of Jesus. Are our politicians who claim to be Christians (or worse, "Christian nationalists") ready to do what Jesus would do?
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One problem (I say as someone who is pro-life and also respects diversity and stare decisis) is that what is being regulated as "abortion" is a medical procedure. This procedure is used in many cases other than as a means of after-the-fact birth control. It is used in ectopic pregnancies and incomplete miscarriages (which can nevre result in a baby being born. It is used for children who cannot safely gestate a baby (physically or emotionally). Doctors are refusing or delaying appropriate medical care for fear of being prosecuted. Where is the line between the life of the mother and the health of the mother? These kinds of medical decisions cannot be made in legislatures by non-doctors and applied to every patient's circumstances. And why are many of those politicians now seeking to restrict birth control, an obvious way to reduce many abortions? I live my own life in accordance with my religious beliefs, but politicans in a pluralistic society are not free to do the same with laws that apply to everyone. My religious beliefs oppose the death penalty, the civilian access to weapons of war, the refusal to lend a helping hand to the poor and oppressed, the idolotry of wealth and power instead of the humble service and love for all of Jesus. Are our politicians who claim to be Christians (or worse, "Christian nationalists") ready to do what Jesus would do?
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