@acarson @DavidGoldfield @BootsChantilly

If human beings are animals like any other animal, then having an abortion is no different than putting down a dog or cat. If humans are different because they have “souls” then an abortion still isn’t different from putting down an animal because a fetus is a soulless golem until it takes a breath of air. There are no mourning rituals for a miscarriage, abortion, or stillbirth in Judaism precisely because an empty soulless body is *not* a human person.

Your religion can feel differently if it wants to, but you don’t get to make that decision for people on other spiritual paths. You religious organization can command your cult, and only your cult. Your “god” is not universal, is not the only “god,” and your religion is no more valid than any other.

That’s the real part christians can’t stand – that they’re not special and don’t have “Truth” – and in fact are far less enlightened than other spiritual paths. This is about power, period.