@BillRM,
BillRM wrote:
A groups of cells that has not yet form into any kind of higher animal life is not a baby and only a possible future baby.
As a woman can I chime in here? I CHOOSE to agree with you Bill on this subject. I choose to believe that just cuz cells are forming, does not make it life...yet. Since we have no proof of a "soul", we rely on science to tell us that until the cells form into something that is viable on its own, it is not yet life.
Theres the pure science of it...as for the social aspects? I cannot speak for any woman but myself. The only thing that makes me angry, is anyone, male or female, making a decision for what is right for my life.
I have two children, both with my husband, and I didnt really want children. I considered abortion. But, in the end, I CHOSE against it, because I knew my hisbands parents wanted grandchildren so badly. Luckily I had a great support system. I am not a drug adfict or alchoholic and I am blessed to have raised them in a middle class, safe envoronment. So I have NO right to tell someone else, that is pregnant in less then favorable circumstances, they should have that child.
And, Im sure this sounds very cynical, but if only black people were getting abortions, I doubt most pro lifers would care. Its not like you see a bunch of white protesters outside inner city clinics.