If we can't trust women to make decisions about their own bodies, who exactly should we trust? The anti-abortion position rests on granting a fetus personhood rights that override the lived reality of the pregnant person, but that's a philosophical leap, not a medical or legal certainty. Research from the Guttmacher Institute shows that restricting abortion doesn't reduce abortion rates — it just makes them riskier and more deadly. We're not talking about abstract cases. We're talking about ectopic pregnancies, severe fetal anomalies, rape victims, and women whose health is endangered. When we ban abortion, we force doctors to delay care until a patient is septic. That's not pro-life; that's pro-suffering. I fully understand the moral weight of fetal life, and I respect that belief deeply. But imposing one religious or philosophical view onto everyone's medical decisions violates bodily autonomy, a principle we uphold everywhere else in medicine. Choice isn't anti-life. It's anti-coercion.