Has it not occurred to people that, in the context of legal abortion on demand, is is impossible to stop abortion for sex selection reasons. The woman concerned merely needs to claim another pretext or say nothing.

Alan B,

<<Hey runner, I had a wart removed from my nose recently. Give (sic) it was human tissue and dividing XY cells. If one follows your moribund rational (sic), I too should be charged with murder?>>

This is an irrational comparison. What was growing on your nose was not a new, live human being, as in a woman's womb.

MedicineNet states that 'a wart by another name [is] a local growth of the outer layer of the skin (the epidermis) caused by a virus. The virus of warts (a human papillomavirus) is transmitted by contact', http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7082

From the time of conception, the medical profession has determined what is growing in the womb:

"At fertilization, the sex of the fetus is already determined, depending on whether the egg receives an X or Y chromosome from a sperm cell. If the egg receives an X chromosome, the baby will be a girl; a Y chromosome means the baby will be a boy.

"According to the Cleveland Clinic, it takes about three to four days for the fertilized egg (or embryo) to move to the lining of the uterus, where it attaches or implants to the uterine wall. Once the embryo is implanted, the cells start to grow, eventually becoming the fetus and the placenta, which is tissue that can transport oxygen, nutrients and hormones from the mother's blood to the developing fetus throughout pregnancy", http://www.livescience.com/44899-stages-of-pregnancy.html

That is not what happened with your wart.

A new human life begins in a woman's womb at the time of conception. Your wart is gone and dead and it wasn't a new live human being but a skin disease!!

OzSpen, you got one thing right, "in a woman's womb". That's not your womb, or any one else's womb, but one womans womb.

I don't know where you think you got the right to control any one else's womb, or any other part of their body, but you don't have that right. You never will have that right, so why don't you go mind your own damn business.

You people who think you are superior are nothing but sick dictatorial pains.

When is a human being separate from the mother, at what stage is it still a foetus?

Hasbeen,

<<OzSpen, you got one thing right, "in a woman's womb". That's not your womb, or any one else's womb, but one womans womb.>>

I agree. However, you miss a CRITICAL issue. I'm not talking about one woman's body but the human life of two people. One of those is slaughtered in every abortion. That human life is too often ignored in this discussion.

<<I don't know where you think you got the right to control any one else's womb, or any other part of their body, but you don't have that right. >>

Nowhere in my post did I suggest I had the right to control a woman's body. Why did you use a red herring fallacy here. Please learn to deal with the content of what I write.

Only 3 days ago Sky News reported: 'The man who allegedly stabbed a woman in Sydney’s CBD is in custody following a dramatic citizen's arrest’.

I congratulate those who risked it here, http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/watch-the-dramatic-moment-alleged-cbd-stabber-is-arrested-with-a-milk-crate/ar-AAFJFD4

<<You never will have that right, so why don't you go mind your own damn business>>

I do have a right to make it my business. I live in a country where free speech is allowed. As long as I have a voice to speak and fingers to type, I will oppose the killing of innocent unborn children.

<<You people who think you are superior are nothing but sick dictatorial pains.>>

At no point in my post did I exhibit anything that indicated I was superior to any other. You’ve invented that.

If you consider that I am a person with <<sick dictatorial pains>>, you err. If you were a German Jew, gypsy or member of a minority group in World War 2, I'd be like a Dietrich Bonhoeffer, pastor and theologian, who was an anti-Nazi dissident.

He wrote: 'Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act'.

For me not to speak about the evil killings in abortion clinics is to speak loudly.

those pollies rejoicing and congratulating themselves show how sick society is. They reminded me of Isis rejoicing over terrorist attacks. No different really despite the denials of biology on this thread.