MJS2122,

That's all a bit silly really. The whole debate is mute as it relies on the definition of when there is a human, or a potential human.

In the end, why is abortion more upsetting to pro-lifers than contraception? Both are denying life. So contraception is a ok, but when it fails you have a problem rectifying it? Sounds bizarre to me.

If you're pro-life you must be anti-contraception. You actually should also be against sex for anything other than making babies.

Maybe pro-lifers should put their money where their mouth is, and put themselves up as surrogates.

Houellebecq

'Maybe pro-lifers should put their money where their mouth is, and put themselves up as surrogates.'

I would say that many pro deathers should stop promoting immoral behaviour and that would cut the unwanted pregnancy rate drastically. The problem is that many don't want to have their own immoral life curtailed.

MJS2122, just like all anti-abortion people, you conveniently forget the 'life' of the pregnant women.

Before legalised abortion was voted in by the predominantly male politicians of the day, women (and their babies) were dying in significant numbers after trying to abort themselves, or after having unqualified 'backyard abortions'.

Even in the unlikely event that abortions became totally illegal, how would you, and those like you, 'force' women to carry on with a pregnancy they definitely don't want, for whatever reason?

Would you tie them all up in pregnancy homes until they had their babies? Or would you simply turn a blind eye to botched abortions and dead women, just like the 'good old days'?

The women of this nation are not going back to those archaic days, ever.

MJS:“Really suzonline - you just cannot tell those who seek to support the right to life of a human being at its most vulnerable and defenceless that they should butt out.”

She can and she did. Ha!

MJS:“Every person who supports abortion - including those rare cases where conception has occurred after rape - supports the killing (termination) of an innocent human.”

That’d be me, I support it. I’m pro-killing innocent humans in the first trimester. I’d prefer a label with less keystrokes but hey.

Great article. I appreciated that mention has been given to a number of circumstances leading to abortion, with associated possibility for distress. However, I was disappointed that there is just as much possibility for distress when the all-time most prolific aborter of fertilized human cells (or nascent human beings) is God.

Re-run of my comment - complete this time:
Great article. I appreciated that mention has been given to a number of circumstances leading to abortion, with associated possibility for distress. However, I was disappointed that there was no mention that there is just as much possibility for distress when the all-time most prolific aborter of fertilized human cells (or nascent human beings) is God.