I’m searching for a logically defensible answer.
If we say that a fetus is a life (separate from the mother) like you and me then, to be logically consistent, shouldn’t the punishment for the people that take that life be the same as if they took yours or my life?
If not then are you saying that the fetus is not really a life like you and me, but something else (something lesser?). If so, what is that something else? Does the definition of that “something else” change as the fetus develops?
Does the mother actually kill her child? Is it by her hands? The law treats both differently - telling someone that you want them to kill someone is not the same thing as actually killing them.
We don’t give people a get out of jail for claiming that they killed someone under the orders of someone else.
It’s also a question of scope - abortion is very much all about the pillars, and it’s all based on a few doctors performing tens of thousands of them over their career. Get rid of the doctors, and it will shut down. Guaranteed.