The pro-life position typically claims abortion is murder. This is not semantics, or a case of rhetorical hyperbole; it’s a bedrock of the argument for outlawing abortion. However, many who espouse it don’t act like they think abortion is literally murder, but something less; still immoral, just not as bad.
Banning abortion essentially gives the state custody of a pregnant woman’s uterus. That’s not a politically correct way to put it, but it’s what a ban entails. Under such laws, if a woman gets pregnant, she loses the right to control what happens inside her body. If she doesn’t want to carry to term and give birth, the government forces her to against her will. That means the state, not the pregnant woman, has custody of her body. Otherwise, she, not government, would get to decide what happens inside her uterus, and whether the rest of her body should go through the physical changes and health risks that accompany pregnancy.
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