Up until the third trimester, medically, all a baby is a clump of flesh. It doesn't think, it doesn't feel, it doesn't demonstrate any characteristics we associate with a living, thinking human being.
To assume that life begins before the brain develops requires a philosophical or religious perspective. Something that we're forbidden by the Constitution to force others to adhere to. Thus, whether abortion is okay or not is a purely up to the father/mother.
That said, I would never allow my potential son/daughter to be aborted. The potential that that clump of flesh has to become is enough for me to at least give it a chance to live.
I'm, politically, pro-choice but personally pro-life.
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