According to the Bible, life begins at breath, NOT conception.

I am not a Bible follower, I'm just making a point about how wrong these rabid prolifers are.

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At the time of the founding of the US, abortion was legal up until "the quickening" when the woman could feel the baby move in the womb. So the authors of the Constitution knew of abortion and did not see fit to ban it. OK, you want to ban abortion like we banned slavery? Great - pass a Constitutional Amendment like we did with slavery.

Abortion was frequently practiced in North America during the period from 1600 to 1900. Many tribal societies knew how to induce abortions. They used a variety of methods including the use of black root and cedar root as abortifacient agents. During the colonial period, the legality of abortion varied from colony to colony and reflected the attitude of the European country which controlled the specific colony. In the British colonies abortions were legal if they were performed prior to quickening.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10297561/

Founding Father Benjamin Franklin published an at-home abortion recipe:
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/18/1099542962/abortion-ben-franklin-roe-wade-supreme-court-leak