Not exact matches
And if the SCOTUS all
of a sudden changed their position and said that
fetuses did have rights... would you change your
mind?
I submit that pro-life arguments seem absurd to any listener who has in the back
of the
mind a sense that the embryo or
fetus is being constructed in the womb.
People may generally be unaware
of the historical lack
of agreement among the fathers
of the Church on when the
fetus possesses a soul, but they likely sense at some level
of their
mind that their pro — life stance is personally based more on passionate belief than on demonstrable fact.
While it didn't get as much attention as the (thankfully) failed vote by the Senate to ban abortions after 20 weeks in January — never
mind that abortion that late in a term is both rare, and nearly always because the
fetus has a catastrophic ailment — John Faso voted in favor
of the same legislation in the House this past fall.