It is the woman's choice, and hers alone, to decide whether it is a life or a lump of tissue. Period. Not yours. Not your religion's. Not the government's.
That is the essence of liberty and self-determination. A pre-viable fetus has no legal rights whatsoever vis a vis the mother.
So....if a woman decides you are a "lump of tissue" she can snuff you out? How disingenuous, counsellor.
I would suggest the decision is not generally made on the basis of whether there is a viable offspring developing, but upon the convenience of the presence thereof.
That's a damned dangerous precedent, when we start eliminating the inconvenient for being inconvenient.
I must note, also, that it takes two to produce an offspring, and that you give the other contributor to that unique DNA arrangement absolutely no say as to what happens to their progeny.
Ultimately, we both know that the woman has had that choice as long as there have been pregnancies, but since Roe, for every thousand live births, there have been 210 abortions.
sourceBAN MOTHERHOOD! It seems the greatest single threat to the life of children is their mothers. Not Guns, Drugs, or rattling around the front seat of the car unrestrained, but dear ol' mom.
It isn't as if there are not myriad ways to prevent pregnancy, something a responsible person would do, and always ultimately the provenance of the prospective mother.
I simply fail to see wholesale murder as a solution for irresponsibility, especially with the sanction of any court or State.