No law will ever stop one single abortion. Anyone who wants one will just go where they are available. Only by persuading young women will they not choose abortion. I personally don't think anyone knows when the soul enters the body thus becoming a sentient human being.
When did God put Jesus in Mary's womb. i know no one who would argue it was after conception. Imagine someone saying, "Jesus wasn't really in Mary's womb until she was pregnant for three months".
In the scripture it is a given, and it should be for us as well. "She wasn't with child until after the first trimester" or, "we saw the blue line on the pregnancy test and we knew we had a little soul with us as early as the past two weeks".
No law will stop *every* abortion. But if the penalty is severe enough, a federal law outlawing abortion would prevent *many* abortions.
I personally don't think anyone knows when the soul enters the body thus becoming a sentient human being.
Ignorance is no justification for carelessness. If you don't know if something is a human being, then on the principle of safety, you shouldn't kill it. When you go hunting, you don't shoot the animal until you know that it is not a human being. If you don't know when a human being becomes present, then you should support the most cautious position, until you have good reason to believe otherwise. The most cautious position is that the one-celled human zygote is a human organism.
-A8