In genuine cases of maternal life threatening complications (ectopic pregnancies, as an example), clearly you have a moral right to self-defense - one life threatening another always invokes that right. Otherwise, abortion is always a moral wrong. Rape and incest are crimes that deserve severe punishment, but not death to the innocent child.
By admitting this, abortion becomes more of a grey issue than slavery, which is wrong under all circumstances.
Rape and incest are crimes that deserve severe punishment, but not death to the innocent child.
President Bush does not share this view. Most anti-abortion legislation proposed in recent years does not either.
Ivan