Getting to the heart of the abortion debate - CapX

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : It is to elicit the sense that abortion ends the life of a being that can feel, and suffer.
48% : To see this, consider a case beyond the immediate context of abortion: that of an anencephalic infant.
46% : The proposal in question is for a 'heartbeat ban' - a prohibition on abortion from the point at which a fetal heartbeat is detectable, which proponents of such laws allege to occur at around six weeks into pregnancy.
41% : And since interfering with people's rights to control their bodies and avoid unwanted parenthood requires a very strong moral justification, it is also work asking what the justification for banning abortion at the appearance of a fetal heartbeat could possibly be.
40% : At issue in Dobbs is a Mississippi law that generally prohibits abortion after the fifteenth week of pregnancy.
38% : To appeal to the fact that abortion stops a beating heart is to tap into those associations.
37% : Although prohibiting abortion from six weeks is somewhat less restrictive on paper than doing so from conception, as the anti-abortion movement has more traditionally advocated, the difference in practice is likely to be negligible, since pregnancy is usually not discovered at that very early stage.
37% : But politically astute as that move may seem for opponents of abortion, rhetorically and argumentatively it is not risk-free.
36% : When we ask these questions, I think we find not only that heartbeat bans lack a substantial rationale, but that they implicitly trade on moral considerations that may yet backfire on opponents of abortion.
33% : As a matter of principle, however, heartbeat bans seem to involve a noteworthy departure from the conventional 'pro-life' commitment to the wrongness of abortion from conception.

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