re: Prior to Roe v Wade being overturned I had no idea that abortions were that common.

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Please explain. I presume you are aware that there is a whole branch of scholarship known as secular ethics. Indeed, many earlier posters in this thread were discussing the issue in the context of moral philosophy having shared issues across a variety of religions (including the absence of religion)

Deprivation of life is pretty common concern against any belief systems, codified laws, or social systems. We define exceptions for justifiable homicide. That could be done here, but uniformly law makers have instead only sanctioned homicide against the “borned”