I don't have to tell you that these people don't care about any of that. They don't care if the fetus dies (or is already dead) as long as it's not deliberately aborted. They don't care if the mother dies. They don't care if the mother survives and suffers a lengthy illness or becomes infertile. Yet they feign taking the moral high road, because they are doing what they think their god wants them to do to others. THAT'S what they care about. They want to be seen saying and doing these things by their god, who they also believe rewards and punishes accordingly.
No, they haven't. When the church could coerce or compel it, every maiden was expected to marry at puberty and could not refuse their husbands sex. There were rules against divorce, homosexuality, masturbation, and birth control (rhythm method and early withdrawal originally, oral contraceptives, IUDs, and abortions later), and no extramarital sex. And you can be sure that the church would love to have the power to force that on people again.
But even if we grant you that, so what? They chose to have sex and now have an unwanted pregnancy. Abortion is an acceptable solution for most, and it really doesn't matter at all who disagrees when abortion is safe, legal, and accessible.
Disagree. What's your position on Hamas and Israel? How do you feel about self-defense? If you accept killing there, then you've contradicted yourself.
Fetuses have no rights except those granted by the rest of us. Your heart may break for them, but that doesn't give them rights. Laws do such as the ones these Texans are attempting to impose and others are attempting to cast aside.
Most of Western society has entered or is entering its post-religious phase, and such people don't care about the values the religions teach when they contradict their own consciences. They reject religious homophobia, misogyny, and atheophobia. They reject hell theology. They reject religious anti-intellectualism and anti-scientism. The opinions of the religious don't matter in their lives.
And even the majority of Christian women reject Handmaid's Tales values and want the right to abortion.
What we're seeing in these states with stark abortion laws is an exodus of medical talent from them. It's the same thing that the Arabs suffered when they returned to religious fundamentalism and ceased being leaders in free thought, astronomy, and mathematics. It the same brain drain that Germany suffered before and after World War II. And now, many ob-gyns are simply unwilling to live and work in such places any longer. Texas really isn't a fit state to live in for a fertile woman if she can't get an abortion there OR elsewhere.
