Here's what I truly don't understand about the religious anti-abortion people
My family are very religious people. They grew up in the backwoods of the state of Georgia on a farm. I grew up in a religious setting. Growing up in that setting is the reason I’m not religious today. My grandmother was a southern Baptist woman that made sure my cousins and I went to church and was baptized. I hated it!
I’m saying all that to say I was always taught that God makes the ultimate judgment for everyone. Everything goes according to God’s plan and God don’t need help. Everyone will get their day of judgment when the Lord calls them.
That leads me to the question why exactly do they care? If God is the ultimate decider, what makes them think that they can cast judgement upon the mere mortals on Earth?
What makes them feel so righteous to but into other people’s lives?
I would assume that any Christian would believe that any decision of whether someone should be punished for having an abortion or performing one does not belong with any mere mortal on this Earth. It belongs to God and God alone.
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and power. It’s power for the GOP & religious leaders, it’s controlling women/female sexuality for many ‘in the pews’, it’s a warped empathy for ‘babies’ for some of the young and naive. One of the best responses I’ve read to the abortion issue was from an ex-abortion opponent.
"How I Lost Faith in the Pro-Life Movement"
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2012/10/how-i-lost-faith-in-the-pro-life-movement.html
Some quick quotes (but I encourage all to read it in full):
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"I was raised in the sort of evangelical family where abortion is the number one political issue. I grew up believing that abortion was murder, and when I stopped identifying as pro-life I initially still believed that. Why, then, did I stop identifying as pro-life? Quite simply, I learned that increasing contraceptive use, not banning abortion, was the key to decreasing the number of abortions. Given that the pro-life movement focuses on banning abortion and is generally opposed advocating greater contraceptive use, I knew that I no longer fit. I also knew that my biggest allies in decreasing the number of abortions were those who supported increased birth control use – in other words, pro-choice progressives. And so I stopped calling myself pro-life.
My views on fetal personhood and women’s bodily autonomy have shifted since that day, but when I first started blogging a year and a half ago I was nevertheless very insistent that the pro-life movement should be taken at its word when it came to rhetoric about saving “unborn babies” from being “murdered.” I insisted that the pro-life movement wasn’t anti-woman or anti-sex, and that those who opposed abortion genuinely believed that a zygote/embryo/fetus was a person with rights in need of protection just like any other person. I believed that the pro-life movement’s actions were counterproductive, but that they were merely misinformed. I wrote a post with practical suggestions for opponents of abortion. I believed that the pro-life movement was genuine in its goals, but simply ignorant about how its goals might best be obtained.
I have come to the conclusion that I was wrong."
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"If it were about babies, they would be making access to birth control widespread and free and creating a comprehensive social safety net so that no woman finds herself with a pregnancy she can’t afford. They would be raising money for research on why half of all zygotes fail to implant and working to prevent miscarriages. It’s not about babies. It’s about controlling women. It’s about making sure they have consequences for having unapproved sex."
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MY fave rant centers on bodily autonomy. [Posed as a question] If the government is allowed to force a woman to use her body in pregnancy to keep someone else alive, regardless of the wishes of or consequences to that woman, then would it be moral/ethical/legal for the gov to set up a national database that matches those in need of livers, kidneys, bone marrow, blood, etc with all adult citizens and if you are a match then you should HAVE.NO.CHOICE about donating to prevent someone else’s death, regardless of cost, lost work/school time, medical repercussions, etc? What’s good for the goose... 
Later,
