What would it actually mean to be Pro-Life?

“Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the soil!”

Last week’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade has caused a lot of turmoil. Those who require abortions or who may need them in the future are grieving, while those who have clamored for abortion bans have cheered the decision. For decades the gap between people who are pro-life (opposed to abortion) and pro-choice (in favor of keeping abortion legal) has been one of the most profound and unbridgeable in American politics. There are people who base their entire electoral strategy around this one issue, and its not hard to see why.

Those who are pro-choice argue that abortions are necessary healthcare. In addition to believing that people should be able to terminate a pregnancy if it poses a danger to the mother’s health or well-being, they also fear that restrictions on abortion would limit the use of procedures which are necessary to end an ectopic pregnancy. They point to a long history of women left to die because doctors would not perform the procedure, or worse, women dying during botched and illegal abortions. In their view, an abortion ban would mean a return to those days. We’re already seeing some of this come up in unexpected ways, as many women are being denied vital medications because they could be used to induce abortions, even if…