Trump's Comments About Abortion Echo Personhood Extremists

Abortion, abortion, abortion.

We just can't have an election in this country without the Republicans making abortion a BIG issue. Just yesterday, Trump declared that women who have abortions have to be punished.

He's marching in the long line of "pro-lifers" who preach that the fertilized egg has the same personhood as a child.

So, if you "kill" the fetus, it's no different than killing a two-year-old toddler.

Let's look into this personhood idea (I’d call it nonsense) for a minute.

According to all of these Christian pro-lifers, God creates a human at the moment that an egg and sperm unite. Into this new human life he breaths a soul. That tiny new being, made by God's hand, is precious and must be protected. Thus, ending that life is a sin against God and must be illegal under the law.

Here's the rub.

• Half of all fertilized eggs (those tiny new persons God made) are spontaneously aborted before a woman knows she's pregnant.
• Another 15-20% of pregnancies end with a spontaneous abortion in the first trimester.

So, almost 70% of those beings God supposedly created, those precious lives that must be protected under the law, die long before they are born. Who is responsible for this huge killing spree? God?

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