The fact is, I refuse to recognize a zygote as possessing the same moral and legal rights as a human that has been born into this world. I'm against the barbarity of partial birth, because it's obvious that it's killing a fully developed baby.
At the VERY least, pro-lifers should want women to NOT be undergoing surgical procedures and to take the Morning After pill, so that chances are no embryo has been destroyed, and there's only a small chance that it's preventing the blastocyst from attaching to the uterine wall. However, since it's invention they've been against it. Since women for all time, illegal or legal, will exercise this option, why not do it when the "life" is only a few hours old. Can you honestly compare a recently fertilized egg to a newborn, to a 10 year old, to an 60 year old?
Pcl is right in one way. When the life is naturally aborted early on, there's sadness, some regret over the "potential"(which is actually the root of so-called guilt of women who've had abortions) but there's no consideration of it as a child. And what of anencephalic babies born with nothing but a brain stem? They are alive(though not without assistance) but they can NEVER develop a life as we know it. Yet to prove a pro-life point, one of these families that had an anencephalic baby had to watch it die slowly, and witness organs that might have helped babies that had a chance at something real in life lose out on organs because of steady degradation.
Life is tough sometimes, ya know?
Like for George and Barbara Bush, who had to watch their four year old daughter Robin die slowly.
Would it have been better if George and Barbara Bush had been able to abort Robin before birth, to spare them the pain?
As for anencephalic babies, Senator Rick Santorum and his wife had an anencephalic child. They refused doctors' pressure to abort him, and cradled him lovingly until he died.
Sad as that was, they said they would not have given up that experience for the world.