Let me caveat this. I don't think this is true of all members of the pro-life movement (a phrase I will use here because it is the most commonly used one). There certainly are true believers out there. But most folks don't act like it.

Generally, the pro-life movement says that life begins at conception, by which they mean when the sperm meets the egg and cell division begins. This is, at a basic level, probably also the most logical of the options for marking the "beginning of life."

If we accept this, abortion is the leading cause of death, by far, worldwide. It is tens of millions of murders, death and destruction of innocent life at massive proportions. It's a WW2 level of deaths, but every...single...year.…