The pro-choice argument is you are violating a woman's rights and that it is her body. There is no one more for a woman's rights than the one that defends their right to live, and therefore all other rights. More than half of all abortions are women being murdered in the womb (because some countries kill women disproportionately prioritizing men). Gasp and shock how can I be so unfeeling as to use the word "murder"? Don't you think the question of if we are committing murder bears serious consideration? Can you not even contemplate it? Abortion has rightly been compared to slavery and the holocaust because those things were justified by saying they are lesser people, or not human. How can we think that we are somehow removed from this excuse for sin especially when a pro-choice left also typically yells racism at any provocation. 60 million abortions in the US since Row V Wade which are by the way
disproportionately black. Instead the pro-choice moment is fixated on defecting away from the core issue and labeling the pro-life movement as if it exists to oppress women. This does not speak to honesty. Your choices in life do not allow the murder of an innocent child. A mother once drowned her born children in a bathtub believing they were devil possessed. If her belief alone allows her to commit murder all legalizing murder requires is a murderer saying "I don't believe you are human". The only point that has any relevance is NOT then a woman's rights, but if an unborn child is a child.
Scientifically there is no magic switch at birth between the womb and world that turns a child "on". If breathing on their own is your metric those on ventilators shouldn't be human. If complete dependence on others to live is your metric babies still shouldn't be human after being born. The cells of an unborn child are indisputably alive, the cells are indisputable human, have their own separate DNA from the mother, and between womb and world will be the same ones that make up that child when born. An unborn child is not Schrödinger’s Cat. An unborn child has rem sleep, brain activity, can react to outside noise, they move, they can feel pain, they suck their thumb. Children have been born premature at 21 weeks and lived (if doctors don't abandon them to die and some do regardless of what parents want). Amillia Taylor born at less than 21 weeks is now two years old only because her mother lied about her pregnancy age, and I know she already has more value to the world than some doctors I've known.
Emotionally do pregnant woman have a fetus shower? Do they say the fetus shifted or the baby kicked?
Biblically it is written Jesus and John met while in their mothers' wombs and John leapt Luke 1:39-45 . A mindless, spiritless, blob cannot react to anything. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..." Jeremiah 1:5, Isaiah 44:2, Job 31:15. Many verses refer to you being formed in your mother's womb not at birth.
Historically America had laws against abortion from about 1857 to the 1960s so they are not without precedent and there has been continual arguing against abortion ever since it's legalization. It is in no way settled law or super precedent. Christians of the 1st century spoke against "exposing" a child. That is to abandon a newborn child to die in a vase, their technological equivalent to abortion.
Let's get to the heart of the matter though, the true question that includes and goes beyond abortion, what makes you human? Is it ability? Ability can give evidence of what we are, but it is not our value. Ability does not remove sin from the gifted and has nothing to do with using abilities selflessly or righteously. Valuing only ability leads to a society of the "gifted" exploiting and ruling those of "lesser" ability. The value of beauty, strength, and intelligence is subjective, but the value of a human cannot be subjective, or not everyone will be valued equally. Who decides "you must be this tall" to be human? That was the metric for much evil. Now if we are but only animals, would we not live as them? Kiss, kill, crime, or charity there is no good or evil for animals only instinct and chemicals. You can feel like being kind, but being cruel is just as valid. We herd and eat animals would we not likewise control and dispose of each other without regret? If you did feel a pang of remorse there is a chemical, drug, to treat that no less valid than actually making amends, and quite a bit easier. What motivation, what reason, but survival can you give to a human animal driven by instinct and dominance? That future is an oppressive, totalitarian, society which watches and controls a herd because it has no reason to control itself. If a victim is replaceable, if they have finite value, if it is in my interest, if I believe I can get away with it, then why not murder? No, our value is that humans are more than ability, feelings, flesh, or animal. We have a spirit, an eternal soul that sets us apart, that we are made in the image of God. We need this touch of the supernatural, something beyond scientific measuring or it could be manipulated, replicated, and devalued to nothing. Without this we are not unique individuals, but products valued only at the cost to duplicate a replacement. If the soul is our value and if we cannot detect a soul by it's nature we must assume our body receives one at the earliest possible point, conception.
What of pregnancy by rape? If you, an innocent, are assaulted by someone who amputates your arm it is not in your right to then assault another innocent to amputate their arm for yourself. That a woman is burdened longer by a horrific act is unfortunate, but unavoidable. Regardless of how a child is conceived it remains an innocent child. Two wrongs do not make a right.
Additionally unless you were raped you had a choice, don't have sex. The same exact, and equal, thing I tell to men. If you do get pregnant it was both participants choice to roll the dice and as such both their responsibility. Remember when society used to hold people accountable for their choices? You do not get to deliberately pass the consequences of your actions on to an innocent child. As a commentary on the hypocrisy of our society, if abortion is supposed to be a woman's choice alone, that it is ALL her body, how can men be held responsible for child support at all? Is it the man's fault she alone chose to have it when she could have aborted it? All your choice means all your responsibility, you can't have one without the other.
What if you still aren't certain? Then you choose life. Our justice system operates as innocent until proven guilty and it's how all fair minded people should. When one sees a body under a tree you do not bury them until you are sure they are dead.
Politely, and with us much respect as I can, I believe I must say the following. I know there are those that have gone through the traumatic loss of a child and questioned God at the loss. I cannot help but believe that loss was not in vain or without reason. That perhaps that feeling of loss is meant to motivate one to break their silence, to make one passionate about rebuking, pleading, with those that would willingly destroy what was so precious to you.
Watching the Pence/Kamala debate she brought out the "it's my body" line on abortion. It's not just your body Kamala that is the point, but of course Pence didn't say it, sigh. It is a point of contention with me that many in the pro-life movement let these things slide and will not say the M word. It's like talking about the holocaust without saying it was genocide. You may say "but you might drive them away with your cold unfeeling judgement!". I want to convince people too, I languish over saying anything for fear of making things worse, but it is not on us to convince people. We are to teach as Christ taught us, in example, in love, in truth, but only the holy spirit can convict people of the truth. It need not be driven home every moment, it should not be rude, but call abortion for what it is, not for malice, not for justice, but because a baby being a baby is the truth and the whole of the argument against abortion. We will never win if the central point is avoided allowing people to validate themselves with the baseless and nonsensical argument of "you're oppressing women". I believe a lack of truth telling is one of the reasons things persist so long.