I happen to believe that human life begins at conception but I also believe in the Constitution and its bedrock principle of separation of church and state. Laws that criminalize or otherwise prevent pre-viability abortion codify certain religious views over others, and minority ones at that, and thus violate the First Amendment’s anti-establishment of religion clause. That is the firm foundation under which Roe (and the other privacy rights cases — (sodomy/contraception/etc.)) should have been decided and it is the grounds under which they should be affirmed. This is my essay on the matter that I wrote in December. https://medium.com/illumination-curated/abortion-is-murder-4d234daa2e71