A person does not have to be religious to say it’s wrong to murder a child, any more than they have to be religious to say it’s wrong to steal money.  Just because many pro-lifers are motivated by religious beliefs does not make abortion a religious issue.  Remember, the civil rights movement was often led by pastors and headquartered in churches, but that didn’t make civil rights a religious issue.   

To say that abortion should be off limits to the law because most pro-life people are Christians, is as illogical as saying we should do away with laws against theft because one of the Ten Commandments is, “Thou shalt not steal.”  If we are going to start rejecting laws simply because they are supported by religion, given that there is hardly anything illegal which is not also prohibited by Scripture, then we will have to do away with all of our laws.  

As for the ovary issue, we pro-lifers are as indifferent to our opponents’ ovaries, as we are to their spleens, gall bladders, and tonsils.