To look at the single issue of abortion, without cluttering the airways with religion, let's consider this: The human body is a wonderful machine. When a woman becomes pregnant she doesn't have to really "do" anything to keep that baby alive. She only needs to eat, drink and be relatively healthy and the baby will more often than not be born with little circumstance. To end the fetus' life, she actually has to "do" something by performing a procedure. Once that baby is born, however, the complete opposite it true. To keep the baby alive, she must nurture and care for the baby which is a difficult chore. To end the baby's life, she simply has to "do nothing". Yet, in the eyes of the law, if she does NOTHING she will be committing a heinous crime, whereas if she performed a difficult procedure earlier on, it would have been perfectly legal. Quite a difference a couple of months makes...