Odd comment, yours.

I would concur that most pro-life people are so for religious reasons; their source documents, be it the Torah, New Testament, or Quran (et al, for non semitic religions) and religious traditions tend to infer, if not explicitly state, that the spiritual part of the human is extant from conception.

I don’t necessarily see taking one’s guidance from one’s religious beliefs as “fanaticism” or altogether negative, it should be said. If not for the “religious fanaticism” of Abraham Lincoln, which advised him that slavery was evil, slavery likely would have persisted in the US for another couple of decades.

That all said, there are no shortage of agnostic or atheistic pro-lifers as well, and they take their guidance from scientific grounds. There is simply no scientific way that one can select a given moment during gestation and say “that’s a human” and “that’s not a human”. It’s a process that lacks scientifically measurable milestones.

Finally, I’d add that if there’s any “oppression of women” going on in this matter, it comes from our biology, not men.