From their perspective, abortion results in far more deaths.
Remember....I'm not arguing for the law.
I don't believe that the fetus is a human yet, nor do I recognize the government's claim to have authority over such matters.
It is "pro-life" for those who consider the eggs & fetus to be "life".
I know you're not arguing for the law, what I laid out is the reason that this cannot be pro-life when it will
necessarily result in the death of women.
So I'll amend it based on your point, it's pro-life for people who consider a fertilized egg, embryo and fetus to be life AND who consider a woman not to be life.
It's anti-choice, anti-birth control, anti-science, anti-woman and anti-abortion. It's pro-death of women even when the fetus will die because she dies. Which leads to two 'deaths' instead of one.
It cannot be legitimately considered pro-life under those circumstances unless one does not consider women to be life but merely an incubator.
How does this mesh with Roe v Wade? I thought that gave women the right to an abortion. How can individual states pass legislation that would criminalize it?
The SCOTUS will probably have to get involved.
Makes we wonder what the percentage of people who are affected would be: I imagine incredibly small. Not every woman wants to give up her child just because of the circumstances surrounding its conception.
Rape and incest pregnancies are proportionally very small, but still so highly significant due to the level of trauma involved and the sometimes very young ages of the victim.
However every woman who takes hormonal birth control including the morning after pill or who uses an IUD will be affected. In theory a woman who has a glass of wine while pregnant could be charged with a crime.