I don’t think he mentioned pregnancy as a punishment, I thought he was saying that if you have sex, be aware that pregnancy is a possible outcome of that
Yeah, this. Get yourself sterilized, or get ready to play the odds.
Really though, show me the "has to have some reasonable consequences" political candidate. Noone in power has any interest in actually offering a resolution for abortion that doesn't cater to extremists on one side or another. Nobody has interest in a candidate that does. The longer they keep the problem going, the longer they can use it to posture for votes.
Does really a clump of (human, genetically) cells constitute a human?
It sure does for you and me. Regardless of what you or I believe about spirituality or a soul or whatever else you might call it, we're all just that in the end.
By the time it gets noticed at all, it qualifies as a human infant/child under any objective metric I've ever had presented to me. Can't support itself? It won't be able to do that until it's 4 feet tall if you're lucky. Can't contribute to society? Can't do that for a decade and a half anyway, at least. It's made of human, and it's vitals can be physically measured from it's mother. It's human. Either human life matters or it doesn't.
It needs to be approached from the angle of ending a human life. Does this situation qualify as a reasonable objection to ending a human life, or does it not? If someone had the choice (which yes, they 100% did, barring rape) to bring this human life into the equation before the question even arose, is it their responsibility to take the consequences? I don't know who else that responsibility could possibly belong to.
So my position remains that abortion is the ending of a human life. At the least, the logical arguments heavily imply that it is, even if it can't be conclusively proven. Education and
legal guidelines based on medical science should exist that govern when this event can take place. It's an issue that would permanently affect every aspect of our society and identity as a species if an answer was ever accepted. So naturally, we will avoid anything conclusive for as long as possible, probably until some kind of Abortion War kills half of us.