This is a nice, thoughtful opinion. I respect it, I do not agree with it.
And I feel very strongly that, people who value the life of a less than 12 weeks embryon so much should be willing to provide for all the needs of that embryon AFTER its birth, and not consider that, once it is born, it is solely the responsibility of the mother . . especially if she was brow beaten or forced to carry the fetus for 9 months against her will.
I also believe that children born in abject poverty and condemn to an early death due to starvation and illness have MORE fight and should be MORE of a concern to the human race than embryons who have not yet developed a brain stem. Yet, we let 100,000s of thousands of those children die every year because of our lack of caring and because OUR COMFORT in this country is more important than saving the life of BORN children any place in the world.
We also do not hesitate (in fact some of us applaud) to provide some "friendly" countries with the power to kill children in "not so friendly" countries. . (i.e., te continued conflict between the Israelis whom we support with arms of death, and the people of Gaza, who have lost 10 times more children by OUR ARMS than the Israelis).
I will ALWAYS believe that effective and free birth control (not just for women, but for MEN) is the answer to reducing the number of abortions here and across the world. And I am absolutely revolted by the stand of too many "religious" people who would discourage the use of effective birth control, and even threaten their flock of "believers" with excommunication if they use birth control.
