When you consider North Carolina’s new abortion law, what’s striking isn’t that it limits access to abortion from 20 weeks to 12 weeks, but that it allows abortion at all.
How is it that Republican lawmakers who see abortion as murder can allow it within the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy? A life cannot be a little less alive any more than a person can be a little bit pregnant.
Some who believe life begins at conception do not support abortion personally, but they believe the choice should be made by the pregnant individual prior to a fetus’ viability. Many supporters of tighter abortion restrictions think legislators should protect the fetus as soon as a pregnancy can be known.
