Here's the kerfuffleless (yet significant) post that started the kerfuffle...

[ReasonableToo]

5. The victim can rationalize all she wants...

...and I don't mean that in a bad way at all.

When MEN acting as LAWMAKERS dare to invoke the "gift from god" line as a way to take away a woman's right to decide then I cry foul.

That's the harm that I see.

It's also interesting that many years ago the position of the church WAS that life begins at birth. And before that it was a matter of monetary compensation rather than capital punishment if a fetus was harmed. It's not until the so-called "moral majority" decided to politicize abortion that the potential for "fiscal responsibility" went out the window with regard to abortion. And because the policy is only invoked for votes, it runs counter to the "bootstraps" and "you made your bed now lie in it" mentality after birth.