When it comes to policical issues, I usually like to find a quote on Lib-Talk.com... like these.

The pro-life movement is not pro-life and never has been.

Any solution to the abortion debate must satisfy both reason and moral reason. They can be quite different. Morality is about survival. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

What I don't get is why the religionists even object to abortion. It's certainly not forbidden in the Bible where they claim their moral authority comes from. Jesus never mentioned abortion even once, even though it was common in the Roman world he ministered in. Since he clearly ministered to the prostitutes, he undoubtedly comforted some women that had made that choice. Maybe he didn't think it needed to be mentioned.

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The Old Testament is quite clear about when life begins and it is not at conception. In Ezekiel, it clearly states that life starts with breath. It is repeated (Job 10:19):

You cannot murder the unborn because they don't exist yet and will not become a living soul until they take their first breath:

"I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave."

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If you want to look at it from terms of science, even the Catholic Church has accepted that life ends when there is no brain activity. Well, in a developing fetus, brain activity starts at about 24 to 26 weeks. So according to that scientific definition, life doesn't start until then.

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Life is special and important, but there is a reason that you have free will to make important decisions. Clearly, the Bible has no injunction against choosing abortion.