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any different? If a person who kills a pregnant woman is guilty of two murders, then should the killing of the child only not count as one murder? Haven't we inadvertently acknowledged the unborn child as a second person? And does a "person" not have the right to live?

As with any issue, there are mitigating circumstances which occasionally arise to cloud the matter. What if the mother's life is threatened by carrying the baby full term? That becomes an ethical question of whether one life is worth more than another. What if the woman is raped? That's an atrocious thing, but then, there a lot of atrocious things done in our world. The old phrase "Two wrongs don't make a right" comes to mind. No one asked you to raise the child. Try adoption. The rapist needs to be punished. How does killing a third person solve anything? Incidentally, rapes account for a much smaller percentage of abortions than we are led to believe.

All of that aside, let's focus on " a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body". My contention is that it's not her own body anymore. I don't care if a woman wants to pierce or tattoo her body parts, use drugs or alcohol, eat too much or too little, or abuse her body in any number of ways. Those choices may not be wise, but to some extent, she's only hurting herself. But the moment an unborn child is involved, even many of those choices now affect a second person(except tattoos and piercing). We go to great lengths to protect people from second-hand smoke, drunk drivers, and drug pushers. We even acknowledge the adverse affect of these substances on the unborn baby. Yet abortion is considered just another choice that affects only the mother? Unbelievable.

So far, I've left God out of this. But I do happen to believe that God created man, woman, babies, and everything involved in the process of reproduction. God also told us not to kill. Even if we take God out of the equation, we're still left with the question of whether or not an unborn child is a person. If we decide that the baby is not a person until 12 weeks, 24 weeks, or even birth, then how long before that threshold is moved back to some point after birth? Come on folks, let's stop making excuses and face the reality: abortion is murder.

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