Roe v. Wade is gone.

[Angrboda]

An acorn is not an oak tree.

Same organism—at different stages of it's development.

Pro-life arguments have a definite advantage on this front. And I would be surprised if you've ever convinced someone that a fetus isn't a developing human by saying acorns aren't oak trees.

That's why it's necessary to understand that pro-choice positions aren't dependent on such facts. The famous example is that of someone being connected to a sick person as a kind of living dialysis machine. There's no doubt here that the sick person is a fully grown human being. The question is whether it's right to keep the healthy person tied up to the sick person if they ever wanted to leave.

They have the potential to become something. Arguing that simply because something has a potential to become something that they should be treated as the completed thing is no less devoid of facts.

Here's a thought experiment. I'm potentially a dead person. Does that mean I should be immune to laws which only apply to living persons?

This is a breakdown of logic typical of conservatives. Their brains have trouble thinking in terms other than black & white. They are incapable of tolerating ambiguity or nuance. So rather than face the fact that things aren't black & white, they insist that anyone who thinks there are shades of gray is simply wrong. And they'll do anything, no matter how corrupt or unfair, to see that everybody else has to live in their impoverished world.

That's as big a blindspot for the facts as any. It's a detachment from reality. And one that America is going to have to live with because 5 SCOTUS judges can't differentiate their prejudices from the law.