So is this topic officially closed then or do I get to put a few cents in first?
I honestly don't think the argument over abortion ever goes the right way. There is NO SUCH THING as abortion law whether legal or illegal, it's just a big gray line. Pro-Choice advocates argue that it's a woman's right. Pro-Life advocates argue that it is murder. Neither point is valid from the other side's view.
The argument that it is a woman's right holds no weight. We can pretty much take anything and throw the word "right" in front of it because it conveniences us, it doesn't change it's implications, nor does it make it a right. No one has the right to do whatever they want simply because it is convenient, it's not my right to rob a bank simply because I don't feel like working. In the same way it is not a woman's right to have an abortion simply because she does not want to have a baby.
The argument that abortion is murder is slightly closer to the real argument but still leaves the underlying issue in a big gray fog. The real thing we need to define EXPLICITLY is the definition of human. What is human then? The question extends far beyond whether or not we can end a pregnancy. It extends to when we can take someone in a coma off life support. When technology has gone far enough that we can produce genetically modified slaves, it extends to whether or not the slaves have rights or not. The question extends into copyright for pity's sake. Is this thing we have created human or can we copyright it and mass market it.
Another important note is that THIS IS NOT A RELIGIOUS ISSUE. I see very few religions out there that think killing bacteria is murder. Is it a sin to kill fish? A chicken?
A cow? (beware this murder we call BBQ is graphically intensive and not for the faint of heart)
... A human fetus?
Now the real question of abortion is at what point during conception/growth/birth does a few cells turn from a
parasite (We can kill it without worries) into a
human (There's legal issues to sort through before we can kill it)?
