What many people don’t seem to understand is that the “abortion issue” is the “slavery issue” of our time.
In the case of slavery, you didn’t have simple opinions about it. It was a part of who you were. Either the slaves were human beings, fully deserving of all the rights and privileges of any other human being, or they were less than fully human.
There really isn’t any difference in the thinking about abortion. Either it’s a human baby, or it isn’t. It’s really that simple. And that belief is a defining part of who you are.
And if you believe that this is a baby, then killing that baby is immoral under any but the most extreme circumstances, and is the taking of an innocent life, which is, at the very least, manslaughter or homicide.
On the other hand, if you see the fetus as just a bunch of cells, then I suppose it’s no different than having a wart removed. Just more expensive and invasive. But that begs a question: At what point does that bunch of cells become a baby? Unfortunately, some people actually believe that doesn’t occur until WELL AFTER BIRTH, at least according to certain “bio-ethicists.”
That’s why I don’t believe that there can ever be a “truce” between the pro-life and pro-abortion groups.
Mark
>> But that begs a question: At what point does that bunch of cells become a baby?
It also begs the question at what point does the woman become the mother.