[Danny]

Originally posted by Sydney
Perhaps, but why is the place where you draw your line any better than where pro-lifers draw theirs? You've presented reasons for your argument: a lack of consciousness in the early stages of pregnancy. I agree that if an abortion must be performed, it should be done early, ie, within the first three weeks. Is it safe for me to assume you believe abortion is okay as long as we define the unborn baby as a foetus? I'm uncomfortable with your reasoning because there is no significant difference between a foetus of five months in the womb and a baby born four months premature, because you draw the line at whether or not the "organism" is in or out of the womb. I also disagree with what you said about abortion only being considered abortion within the first few months. As far as I knew, it's abortion up until birth, it just gets uglier the longer you wait.

The "pro-lifers" draw the line at conception, which is absurd. You imply that I draw the line at Birth, which is equally absurd. I do not know where to draw the line. That is to be left to the Biologists or (if it comes to it) the Mother. All I am saying is that you can't blanketly ban Abortion. Just because I am not at one extreme, that is not a cue for everyone to project my opinions right to the other extreme...