More choice

The pro-life movement does not really want to end or lessen abortions. If they wanted to do that, they would champion women's access to contraception, which has been shown to deamaricaaly lower the number of abortions obtained.

And the pro-life moveement knows too that completely outlawing abortion, which is the effective result of banning abortion after 6 weeks of pregnancy, will not actually put an end to abortion - it will just be more difficult and dangerous for women to obtain one.

The point of laws like the one in Texas is to punish women for trying to control their own bodies, and to keep women from having the freedom that men have to make choices about their futures. The aim of the pro-life moovement is not to save fetal life, it's to put women in their place as barefoot and pregnant domestic chattel. That may sound hyperbolic, but it is true that if women are not allowed to decide for themselves when and if they have children, they will never be co-people with men in the world.

It's not just the crazies like Operation Rescue who are part of this, it's also "liberal" Pope Francis, who has said women will never ... never ... be priests in his church, Pope Fracis, whose church continuously works not just against abortion, but against women's access to contraception, both with political lobbying and in their charities and hospitals.