This illustrates how this issue is more about an ideal religious agenda (and as we know religion seldom cares about facts and knowledge), and not about morality at all.
Agreed.
Another indication that this anti-abortion attitude is the result of indoctrination and not natural moral impulses is that it clusters in those who go to churches. Authentic moral outrage cuts across multiple demographics. The world's reaction to Putin in Ukraine is authentic moral outrage, and probably is likely seen in every demographic except Russian citizens successfully propagandized by Putin. I would dare say that almost everybody that supports a pro-choice agenda is morally outraged by Putin, but not by abortion. I find that meaningful.
Also, the correlation between the anti-choice movement and assorted other areas where selfish indifference to others clusters. How much empathy do we see coming from the anti-choice people regarding any living thing that is not a human fetus? Not much, so it seems much more likely that their opinions about fetuses are manufactured than the result of an authentic burden for any kind of human being including fetuses. Aren't most gun enthusiasts and antivaxxers also conservative Christians? 81% of White American evangelicals, who are very anti-choice, voted for Trump. Look at who Florida chose as their governor, a Christian anti-choicer who did as much as he could to get children killed in his state, including originally refusing to order vaccines for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers, whose older brothers and sisters he wanted unmasked in schools.
So, yes, you are correct. This is a religious issue being waged inappropriately in a secular state. That's pretty un-American, but so is Christianity, which also has no interest in freedom from religion or tolerance for other ways of living. Some will say that Christianity has assimilated those basic American values, but I would disagree. It's only learned to coexist with them as it tries to promote its contrary vision for American life as we are seeing now with its assaults on reproductive rights and LGBTQ. It will infiltrate and retool the American government to the extent it can.
So you recommend doing away with empathy?
You responded to, "
The only folks who should be outraged are those who are female or have female relatives or friends." I thought that he was being sarcastic. Didn't he just name everybody?