Hi Dan,

Who peer-reviewed the Bible?

Jon,
I take it that it wasn't you. Didn't you burn your copy?

Ok so we have established that the bible is contradictory on this subject thus shouldn't be used as a guide on abortion.

"all the DNA coding needed to build each individual’s physical features is there in the fertilized egg" - as is in every cell in every body... your point?

"It is absolutely false that the developing human goes through any fish or reptile stage, despite some blatantly fraudulent evolutionary claims" Please reference these claims if you state they are false, and perhaps you could expand on how the data is flawed.

Perhaps we could also consider the next moral debate we will face, the ability to take a simple skin cell and turn it into a functional human is possible in the near future. Are these cells given the same protected status as a normally fertilized egg, seeing that it also has the same potential 'life'?

What an utter disgrace to subject a young couple and their families to the torment and substantial cost of a prosecution which arguably had no chance of success. And what hypocrisy to tell a jury not to make no judgement on a law based entirely on a particular moral slant.

What evidence is there of pain and suffering inflicted on the aborted foetus? The only pain and suffering inflicted on rational beings that I witnessed was by the police and prosecution in pursuing a law that should have no existence in an advanced civilisation.

I don't believe in god, I also think abortion is a bad thing. Bad for the child, after all it's killed. I also believe in the right of the mother/doctor to murder the unborn child. Yes, I think it's bad, but I also think they have the personal right to do it. Therefore people on both sides of the argument hate my guts.

But let's call it what it IS, a "killing". This has got nothing to do with a person's right to determine what's done with their own body, because we are not talking about a mother's body. We are talking about a human being INSIDE the mother's body. I believe the mother/doctor has the natural right to terminate the pregnancy for any reason they choose.

But don't call it "abortion". Call it what it is, a fetal "killing". The terminology around abortion is the biggest taboo of modern times.

As far as I'm concerned a foetus - namely an unborn child no matter at what stage of pregnancy, becomes an entity the moment it emerges LIVE from its mother.

Abortions - natural or induced and stillbirths do not count.

While references may be made to 'babes in the womb' and processes of gestation, the only laws refer to a penalty of a fine for causing a 'miscarriage' (Exodus 21 22 - 23)

Those of us familiar with the Bible know that there was a law for virtually everything in the Old Testament along with prescribed penalties. Quite frankly causing the death of your neighbours ox carried far greater penalty.

Look to the welfare of the children already born into this world. That will earn you more brownie points in the hereafter.