Conservative Central

The bottom line on abortion is that downgrading a fetus to a portion of tissue within a woman's body makes it a meaningless thing to be disposed of with ease.

 The horrible thing about abortion is that a woman is willing to kill her child because she could not be responsible enough for her own actions to either abstain or prevent conception in the first place. An unfertilized egg is indeed part of a woman's body(thus, I believe that contraception is acceptable), but once that cell splits and begins to develop it is another person; a child with whom the woman is charged with taking care of.Usually by the time a woman realizes she is pregnant, the fetus has its own circulatory system, its own neural tube, ect. It is very much its own person, just dependant upon its mother, as all babies are. Infantacide is wrong no matter where it takes place, be that inside or outside of a woman's body.

Before we even get started on the case for rape, molestation, harm to the mother, ect., statistics state that about 2% of all abortions performed in this country are due to rape or a medical emergency. Most abortions performed for the 'health' of the woman are justified in that very gray area of 'mental health.' 

With the advances of medicine we are able to push back the gestational age of viability to the point when late term abortions are done. What qualifies the fetus as a human being at that point? If the woman wants the baby it is life, and if she does not, it isn't?

We must always take responsibility for our actions. We must always protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Some things must remain immutable.