Victoribus Spolia wrote:i'd be interested in hearing this....red herring or not.
I think the way to start with that is to look at what are the totem values of the leftists and see how that can be used to make a pro-life argument. For the leftist "equality" is their totem value, specifically the making of equality out of inequality, it is more important to them than anything else, it is the standard by which they judge the good or bad in anything. Once upon a time it was "liberty, equality, fraternity" but in the intervening years they have discovered the contradiction between these three values and ditched the first and the last so to keep "equality".
If you are going to make a leftist argument against abortion the concept of equality is where you should start and finish. Luckily this is very easy to do for abortion. To the leftist "equality" means the greater being reduced to the lesser, forcibly if need be. Clearly the fetus with respect to the reluctant mother is the lesser and the reluctant mother the greater. Clearly to make an equality out of this unequal relationship at the very least the mother must be, forcibly if need be, prevented from murdering the fetus, the same as the rich man should be, forcibly if need be, made to provide funds to the poor man. To make everyone equal.
One could add, in case reactionaries want to make a loophole to allow continued fetus exploitation, that the legalistic defining of personhood so as to make the fetus ineligible for equal rights is just as perfidious and self-serving as the legalistic defining of personhood so as to make the black person condemned to slavery like an animal whilst the white person is exempt as seen, notoriously, in US history.