Certain areas of conflict are so divisive that sensible people don’t bring them up when they know for a certainty that the opposing side has views upon the subject which are adamant, unchanging, and unyielding. One of those seminal subjects of argument comes down to those who are pro-life, who are also known as anti-abortion, as opposed to those who are pro-choice, also known as pro-abortion. When these two sides get together, civility seems to take a backseat, because each side is convinced that they are in the right; whereas, it could be said that each side has its reasonable points.
One of the things that is most annoying about those who are anti-abortion is their contention that life begins at conception, which thereby means there is no reasonable pathway to ever have an abortion, and thereupon essentially means that women are not sovereign when it comes to their own reproduction, but that their body is essentially controlled by the state. What makes this position completely untenable is the fact that pro-life people do not correctly comprehend what life actually means. To believe that life begins at conception necessitates a belief, therefore, that the physical body is preeminent and that if there is a soul, it does not factor into their anti-abortion mindset. In other words, those who are anti-abortion are the very same who seem to believe that physical life is the only life, and when we are physically dead, we are dead. The contradiction to this is that many of those who are pro-life are quite religious, which presents this dilemma -- for if it is contended, that we have a soul, it has to be admitted that one’s soul is indestructible, which thereby means that such a soul has neither a beginning nor an end, thereby signifying that the aborting of a fetus does not ever destroy the eternal soul of which, it is the soul that represents eternal life.
So then, the delusion of the anti-abortion crowd is their belief that they are saving lives, but in actuality, they are, at best, taking control of another person’s physical body, so that the fetus can conceivably come to full term, which they contend creates life. What it does is create physical life; however, the soul preexisted before the physical body and will exist after the physical body, for souls are beyond time and space, as they have no end and no beginning. This thus indicates that the argument against abortion should really be about that women, as well as men, need to be more cognizant that sex begets babies, and if they wish to avoid the inconvenience of a woman becoming pregnant, when this is not desired, they have a multitude of options which will preclude this, that they should, as responsible people, take advantage of.
Additionally, though Roe v. Wade is no more the law of the land, the structure of how abortion was legislated through that decision, was reasonable at the time, and seems fairly reasonable today, of which, the sooner a woman can address her pregnancy and make a responsible decision the better, and there really should be a cutoff point, in which abortion is no longer permitted, such as fetal viability, which is generally considered to be 24 weeks. But to say that pro-life proponents are somehow protecting life seems to ignore the fact that a fetus is contained within a sovereign woman’s body, and that life does not now, nor has it ever begun at conception, but rather life for physical beings begins only when the eternal soul enters the body, which is just before birth.