Question: "Is abortion ever morally justified?"
- Yes, it's the choice of the mother
- Yes, but only in the first trimester
- Yes, but only in cases of rape or incest
- No, abortion is murder

Troy voted "Yes, but only in the first trimester" in the Abortion Poll.

Chris Reyna at 8:56am June 11:

For those of you that think first trimester. It is still a life being destroyed. Here are some graphic photos to show what a baby looks like in the first trimester.
http://www.priestsforlife.org/resources/photosbyage/index.htm

Jessica Sullivan-Thomas at 11:50am June 11:

It'll also be a life "destroyed" if it's a baby born to a mother and/or father who don't want it. Do you really think it's fair that kids have to go through abusive childhoods, not be loved or nurtured properly, and eventually grow up mentally scarred? And then add to that the fact that they will have no proper basis for how to raise their children... Read More, should they have any, etc.

Why should a child have to suffer through a horrible existence because some peoples religion mandates that it is morally "wrong" to abort a fetus? While it technically is a "life" in that it is a living, growing, organism, there is no cognition. Brain activity in a fetus begins at approximately 25 weeks of gestation, shortly before the beginning of the third trimester. So if "killing" a growing organism is "murder", then every tree that get's chopped down would be an act of murder. Quick, get those priests from that site to start gathering pics to protest against the logging industry for their acts of genocide.

As Ang pointed out: "crazy people don't open their minds to logic, so it may be moot. but it's good to feel like you tried"

So I don't expect to covert the dude or anything.. but I get to feel all smug and superior for a moment. Yay me.