[Alamo-Girl]

If I may add something to your thought:

There does seem to be quite an emphasis put on the unborn more than the born in terms of their "soul". It has always puzzled me.

That would puzzle me also, because an unborn - or newborn - is truly innocent and ought to go straight to heaven.

Personally, I would be more concerned about the spiritual health of the woman who made such a hard decision.

Seems like everytime she would see a child, it would hurt her deeply. I wonder if such despair would drive her away from her faith.

[LisaAnne]

Seems like everytime she would see a child, it would hurt her deeply....
I don't know if that is true. A friend of mine used to work in a city hospital, and many women just had abortions as an method of birth control. Those women did not have any regrets for what they had done. As many today do not because it is so much a part of our culture.

I wonder if such despair would drive her away from her faith.
Whether their "faith" entered into it, you are assuming that they had "faith" to begin with.

Personally, I think the fundamentalist christians do more to drive people away from "believing" than anything or anyone else.