Women's reproductive rights explained for right wingers who just don't get it.

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https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/10/pro-choice-pro-life-and-lgbtq-rights.html

'll get back to the "proliferation of LGBTQ intrusion" in a few paragraphs. But let's start with the elimination of abortion rights. I hope we can clear up a lot of ignorance.

Most Evangelicals who have made this their top political issue have almost no understanding at all of what happens medically when a law is written that essentially dictates how a medical procedure can be performed. The only thing that comes to their mind is that an abortion is murdering the life of an infant, because life begins at conception, and abortion is nothing more than birth control.

Does life begin at conception?

That would be an exclusively religious perception, if it is true. However, in Evangelical doctrine, any assertion of the truth of a statement must be supported by a correctly interpreted scripture, applied according to its context. And there is no specific place anywhere in the Bible that makes this statement and declares it to be true. There are, in fact, very few places where there is any kind of teaching on when human life actually begins. There are a couple of examples where a child in the womb was identified, or, in the case of John the Baptist, "leapt" for joy when Mary came into the presence of her cousin Elizabeth, John's mother. But there is no conclusive support for a doctrine stating that human life begins at conception. It is inferred, but inference is not authoritative in Evangelical theology. So they have come to a doctrinal conclusion without sufficient evidence to support their claim.

Is all abortion performed exclusively for the purpose of birth control?

This would be so much easier if that actually were the case. Unfortunately, it's not, and that's why the simplistic "ban" of abortion that most Evangelicals are seeking is an impossible issue.

Abortion is an invasive medical procedure. And any time such a procedure is regulated by law, it removes all of the medical benefits the procedure was developed to deal with. That's exactly the aspect of this that Harris' campaign has been demonstrating, by their use of examples. They're not showing mothers who wanted to get an abortion because the pregnancy was unplanned and unwanted. They're showing examples of women who couldn't get the medical care they needed to save their life because doing so involved removing the fetus to stop the spread of sepsis or some other potentially fatal infection. But the restrictive abortion bans in the states that passed them since the Roe v. Wade decision was made have not taken that into consideration.