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> Objections to abortion access are rooted in religious concerns.

This is simply false. You don't have to be religious to be against killing babies. Many non-religious people find it barbaric.



According to Pew, 86% of people with no religious affiliation think it should be legal.

Why? Because treating a fertilized egg or a fetus as the same thing as a baby is rooted in religion. 13% is few not many.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opini...

> This is simply true.

FTFY


When exactly does a fetus become a baby? At the point of birth? There is no easy way out of this dilemma.

Opinion polls are very easy to game by phrasing questions differently. Ask people at what number of weeks is it ok to crush a growing baby (fetus) into pieces and vacuum it out, and you will get a wildly different percentage.


> When exactly does a fetus become a baby? At the point of birth? There is no easy way out of this dilemma.

The easy way is the one already taken: by putting more restrictions the closer you get to the time of birth, and not at all addressing the question of when it counts as a baby. The easy way is not making that question the focus, because it inevitably leads to a discussion of "when does the soul inhabit the body" - a religious argument.

Thank you for proving my point.


There is no religious argument here. Either it's a baby or it's not. Either you're killing another human being or you're not. You don't need to believe in "souls" to find this type of killing abhorrent.

Spare me the smug bullshit.


Dig up.




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