Really going old testament with this one, which most think of parables if anything. For me, with abortion, or anything, it is about being consistent in viewpoints, which I see fallacies on both sides.
I am not religious at all, but I personally think all life has value, and when we start putting limits, or definitions on life, then we are devaluing human life generally and it is a slippery slope.
Roe and subsequently PP v Casey under the Sup. Ct. has set the current law is based on viability to determine life, which is somewhat arbitrary, as children have lived being born prior to being viable under the current legal standard. I'm all for protecting someone's rights and burdens, but it is hard to offset any burden with taking a life, and we have chosen to do this legally based on an arbitrary definition for convenience.
Here is a sad fact pattern, which has happened a number of times: A pregnant mother with a young fetus (less than viable) is beaten, shot, drugged etc., which results in the death of the fetus (and sometimes the mother dies as well). The perpetrator, which charged, is generally charged with the death of the fetus as well as the mother (if the mother dies). Which seems odd since we have case law from Roe/Casey stating that a "non-viable" fetus is not a life. So then to clarify, the law is really stating that it only becomes legal not murder if a mother chooses convenience over the life of the fetus.
If we all want to agree that we can set an arbitrary value to life, which in turns show we can limit the value of a human, I'm on board, but let's be honest about it and utilize it in other facets of society as well. We could just as easily say a life is not a life if it can't be viable on it's own, without intervening from others. So invalids, or babies may not be life. But we don't need to call it legal killing, just legalized post-birth abortion). In some ways this sounds absurd, but it is really all about our willingness to define the value and existence of a human life.
On the flip side, the same people that are pro-life are pro death penalty (generally), and vice versa with pro-choice and death penalty, which, again makes zero sense. Either a life has value, and we should preserve it, or it doesn't. We often let our political views overtake our ability to take a consistent position on a subject.
