Not everyone defines abortion this way. While few people will say anything in forums because the vocal majority in most forums will react with anger and insults, many real folks out here in real life don't see this situation as abortion. I've read that a large number of fertilized eggs never implant anyway. Because of that, I don't believe that the unborn child is a person until implantation or possibly until a few days after implantation.
I couldn't care less when biological life begins. I care about when the embryo becomes a person. The law doesn't exist to protect biology. The law exists to protect people. I believe that around the time a woman can know that she is pregnant, the unborn child is (or almost is) a person. Therefore, I believe that any act that destroys a known pregnancy should be illegal unless there is some circumstance that justifies that killing. Until that time, I'm not bothered by birth control techniques that try to discourage implantation.
Bill
I couldn't care less when biological life begins. I care about when the embryo becomes a person.
I agree. Primarily because I believe that people have individual souls given to them by God. These souls should be considered sacred and therefor should be protected by man.
The timing of the gift of the soul by God is where I call your interpretation into question. I highly doubt that God follows around each prospective mother, watching her every move to perfectly time the implantation of a soul. In your scenario the baby would not have a soul during the two to three week window between fertilization and when the woman would take a pregnancy test. To me, this belief seems contrived.
What if she would normally never take a pregnancy test until 1 week after a missed period but undergoes unrelated medical tests 1 week prior to her period in which the pregnancy is revealed? Will God have to keep track of our medical appointments in order to know when to schedule the soul implantation?
Without having any factual basis to determine or even guess at what point we receive our souls, I choose to err on the side of caution and advocate the protection of life at fertilization.