Are you Pro-life or Pro-choice?

[elprincipe]

Pro-life except for the situation that ArtofAngels described in his life. In that case, the mother and father would have to make the decision.

Otherwise, abortion is clearly murder if you ask me. The child, when it is implanted in the mother and starts to grow on its own, is a distinct being with its own genetic code. While it sounds heartless, I couldn't justify abortion when incest or rape occurs either. The baby is still a baby regardless of how it was conceived, so it's hard to say that murder of an innocent is then acceptable.

Also I would note that there is more common ground on this issue than there may seem. I think most of us would agree that preventing unwanted pregnancies is important, and thus things like contraception and the morning-after pill (which prevents any fertilized egg from being implanted). I think since there are such deep divisions over this issue that energy should be focused not on the disagreements, but on how abortions can be made less and less in demand - something folks on all sides of the issue can agree on.