Over on this thread there are several people who are both very religious and pro-choice:
<a href="http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53946">The relationship between Iraq and say....abortion.</a>
Personally I'm not religious, these people made me wonder about a few things. Many religions, and Christianity in particular, believe that human beings have some sort of a soul.
For people who believe in the soul, it seems that a possible definition of murder would be the willfull killing of another being which possesses a soul. My first question to you religious people out there is whether that is a reasonable definition.
My second question is: At what moment is a person endowed with a soul? Presumably there is no soul involved before fertilization, but there is one at birth. Sometime in between the soul must be introduced. When do you believe this happens? At fertilization? At viability? At birth?
Clearly this discussion is closely related to the abortion debate (at least it is for certain religious folk), but I'd prefer to keep the focus on the particular issues I mentioned. Please try to keep your posts on topic.