Exactly.
You donāt need to believe the premises to know what follows from them.
Where Iāve been called a right-winger is in defending the idea that the pro-life position makes sense if you take as a given that a fetus is a baby, and has the same moral worth as a newborn. I donāt think thatās right, but I can see what follows from it. I can see how how a restriction on womenās bodily autonomy can be justified without decreasing the value of that autonomy if the value on the other side of the scale is significantly greater (here again, though I would still come down on the side of bodily autonomy, Iām not sure how much that is just a failure to fully credit the value of the life on the other side of the scale, and I accept that reasonable people can conclude otherwise).
But it also implies that contraception and sexual education are incredibly pro-life interventions, because they reduce elective abortions, and they do so more effectively than directly limiting access to abortion.
If Iām misunderstanding the goal, please say so. A lot of policies of the pro-life movement seem like the goal isnāt to prevent babies from being murdered, itās to let babies be murdered as long as the people who kill them also suffer.
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