great post - thanks for your courage! a fetus is a seperate person from the woman and is not considered a PART of her body. at what point should we determine it is a seperate life? 4 weeks, 4 months, 9 months, at birth - it begins at conception. it is not up to the woman to "get rid of it." please do not have sex in the first place if you are not willing to deal with the natural consequences of the act.

regarding the abortifacient drug argument, that is the same as saying starving a toddler to death is a natural way to die and thus is not killing...crazy. you are depriving them of a means to survive - whether in the womb or out. people need to value life no matter where it is.

EXCELLENT post. I have been wanting to do something similar for quite sometime. I'll link to yours and do it from a different angle. Thanks!!

Of course the baby is a baby! Isn't it funny how we use different words? When we want the baby, it's a baby. No prochoice mother has ever called her four-month old fetus a fetus. It's a baby.

But when we don't, we say it's not a person. It is a person. And maybe it's not fair and a big inconvenience if you have to carry a baby you don't want. And maybe it will drastically wreck your life. But that's the way life works. It ISN'T always fair. And in the end you want to live your life in such a way that you won't have regrets.

Everybody knows giving a baby life is a good thing. The question is whether taking a "fetus'" life is also a good thing. Very few argue that it is good; most argue that it is not "bad". But then we've already made the moral distinction; even pro-choice people know that one decision is more moral than another.

So at the end of the day, how will you feel? Deep inside, we know it's a baby. You can rationalize all you want. But what are you going to do about it?

Yes, exactly. And I think deep in their hearts they know that.

To me the greatest tragedy is women who are coerced into abortion. Then they grieve and have no one to turn to for comfort because the world is telling them that they should be relieved, not heartbroken. They are told that their guilt is illegitimate - that they only feel guilt because the prolifers "tell" them to. Post abortion stress syndrome (just like post traumatic stress) afflicts many women. They have no one to turn to so they turn to self-destructive behaviors as a coping mechanism. It's so tragic.