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Re:U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr by rayiner on Monday May 15, 2023 @04:13PM (#35953861)
I’m not talking about the common law. Due to medical advances in the 1800s, abortion was illegal at all stages of pregnancy in the US by 1910.

Also, “life begins at conception,” or at another very early stage, isn’t a Christian innovation. That’s the belief in Shia Islam. Certain Sunni schools also prohibit abortion at any stage. In Thailand, a Buddhist country, abortion was illegal at all stages of pregnancy until 2021.

Same thing in Hinduism: https://indiacurrents.com/a-hindu-view-on-abortion/

Prohibitions against abortion, even at early stages, are common across the world’s belief systems. Perhaps the only thing you could call uncommon is the view that abortion is impermissible even to save the life of the mother. But that’s an uncommon view even within evangelical Christianity.

Re:U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr by mullingitover on Monday May 15, 2023 @04:45PM (#35954254)
These are all great examples of the bandwagon fallacy, but if we're going off popular appeal then why don't we see the abortion debates put to rest once and for all by popular vote?

The answer of course is that abortion rights would win by a healthy margin[1] if the public had any say in the matter.

> Pro-choice sentiment is now the highest Gallup has measured since 1995 when it was 56% -- the only other time it has been at the current level or higher -- while the 39% identifying as "pro-life" is the lowest since 1996.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/393104/pro-choice-identificatio...

Re:U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr by rayiner on Monday May 15, 2023 @06:46PM (#35955547)
I’m responding to OP’s mischaracterization above that “abortion ban comes from a fringe theory forced by a single religion.” Abortion is banned in many different societies that practice many different religions.
Re:U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr by trasz4 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @09:56AM (#35961964)
>Also, “life begins at conception,” or at another very early stage, isn’t a Christian innovation. That’s the belief in Shia Islam.

This is a lie ("In Shia Islam, abortion is "forbidden after implantation of the fertilised ovum.", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_abortion). I guess it never occurred to you why even the Sharia countries are not as extreme on abortion as Christian ones.

>Certain Sunni schools also prohibit abortion at any stage.

Obvious lie, ibid.

>Buddhist

Nope, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_abortion

>Same thing in Hinduism

Okay, so this one is not entirely wrong, just mostly wrong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism_and_abortion).

Once again: "life from conception" is a fringe view specific to Catholicism and borrowed by other extremist branches.