Here’s an excellent you tube video about abortion based on a Michael Card song, *Spirit of the Age*. It’s VERY moving.
Spirit of the Age - Michael Card
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT8OPGrTg-c
My thanks to you all for the links, information and help and advice. Sometimes it is hard to see the wood for the trees when you have no one to talk things through with you, and the assumptions and propaganda of a life time are not so easy a burden to shift on your own.
I assure you all that abortion on demand is now completely equal to murder in my mind (thank you Salvation and metmom and surroundedbyblue - you were most convincing!).
The only aspect I am still uncomfortable with is the conception by rape. I am STRONGLY in favor of the death penalty for rapists, but wagglebee pointing out the actual tiny yearly number of pregnancies from rape and their use to justify mass murder was a good hard slap too - and his freepmails have helped a lot, I shall look out the book you recommended.
Got a lot of serious thinking to do on contraception still, though. Not the pill or the patch, as those kill a fertilized egg by preventing implantation and that I accept is murder, but barrier methods which prevent fertilization.
Those always seemed to me to spit in God’s eye, yet, while abstinence is actively laughed at and discouraged, they may be required. Many thanks to Tzar for his information on that.
Basically, thank you all for taking the time and helping me out here.