[MHGinTN]

For although it takes nine months to make a baby ... Regardless of your personal belief, re The Creator, it is a fact that the individual new human life builds itself, the woman who's giving life support to that new individual life does not make a baby only supports that baby while the 'program' builds the baby. The issue most central is also the one most avoided in the abortion debates, the issue of life support. Our society embraces life suppot at every level of human individual life, except in the womb at the earliest stages. That must soon be addressed cogently or this nation will mutate into something very different from what our founders clearly intended. Did we learn nothing with the contentious, wrongheaded handling of the slavey issue for so many years?

[ppaul]

That must soon be addressed cogently or this nation will mutate into something very different from what our founders clearly intended.

Unfortunately, that has already happened.

[garbanzo]

"E-word" debates aside, you are right - we aren't simply looking at an "unviable tissue mass" here.