But unfortunately, this isn't one of your better write-ups. I sensed ( and I could be wrong) a whif of disdain for fundamentalist types and their arguments, that caused you to not put a similar level of effort into the analysis to this writeup as you have to those of your many other write-ups in the past.
It's a lot more than a whiff. I have nothing but contempt for the religious right and have done ever since the period of Reagan and Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority.
The reason that I went for Biblical passages is because I was thinking about the fundamentalist mindset. It was only when Megan Phelps-Roper (formerly of the notorious Westboro Baptist Church) faced theological challenges from those she was engaging with on Twitter that she began to question her own interpretations of many key Biblical teachings. So this might be the place to start if you are dealing with someone who believes that the Bible is essentially a piece of dictation from God and therefore inerrant.
Additionally, I find it disgusting that so much of the glee felt by right-wingers over this (at least from what I've seen on social media and Youtube clips) is merely about "owning the libs".
I am also reminded that we have been here before. Back in 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the city of New Orleans in Louisiana with devastating effects. Many pro-life Christians were exultant. They saw this natural disaster as a punishment from God because Louisiana has 10 abortion clinics and 5 are in New Orleans. The shape of the Hurricane was also compared to a 6 week old fetus.
Malise Ruthven once wrote very perceptively about this constituency, observing that Christian fundamentalists...
‘...have had a baleful influence on American foreign policy, by tilting it towards the Jewish state, which they eventually aim to obliterate by converting righteous Jews to Christ. They have damaged the education of American children in some places by adding scientific creationism, or its successor ‘intelligent design’ to the curriculum. They inconvenience some women, especially poor women with limited access to travel by making abortion illegal in certain states. On a planetary level, they are selfish, greedy and stupid, damaging the environment by the excessive use of energy and lobbying against environmental controls. What is the point of saving the planet, they argue, if Jesus is arriving tomorrow?'
Ruthven's book dates from 2004 but his points still hold.
Those aforementioned 'poor women' will presumably now need to travel out of state to get a termination.
A few years ago, I watched a BBC documentary about abortion in Ireland. A girl from a poor background had been raped by one of her own relatives and become pregnant. Given that it was impossible for her to procure an abortion and her immediate community was a religious one, she was able to seek help from a charity that helped her to covertly travel to London to have her pregnancy aborted. I suppose it is possible that organisations might now spring up in the USA for the same purpose. There should be no need for them.
I also recall that when the famous Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill was just 17, he was on his way to work one morning in 1823 when he found a dead, newly born baby lying beneath a tree. The infant had been strangled. This was no surprise. London at the time was full of poor families who could not support another child. I expect that we will see more of this too.
Lastly, here is Carol Sanger writing about the immediate aftermath of Roe v Wade in her quite outstanding book
About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America (Sanger is a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and it might be worth Googling her name in connection with this issue to see what observations she has been making about this decision))
:
'There was...a massive decline in maternal mortality and obstetric injury. Thirty-nine illegal abortion deaths were reported in 1972, nineteen in 1973, and three in 1975; emergency rooms saw far fewer cases of sepsis and uterine perforation from illegal abortions. All this shows how differently women were able to proceed with their lives on account of the decision in Roe v. Wade.'
Expect that
'massive decline' to now be reversed
.