Please feel free to E-mail me with your own comments on this issue or on anything else included in my Philosophy of Life section. It should be obvious to any thoughtful netizen that life begins not at conception but at the moment of birth.
Abortion is only the denial of an animal's potential birth.
The moment of conception is certainly the start of the existence of a living thing whose continued existence is entirely dependent upon the mother. Since abortion occurs before birth, I find it difficult to buy the charge that it kills human beings. At the time of birth as many as 1000 souls have been known to hover about the fetus trying to decide which of them will be the most perfect fit. If none of them chose the vehicle we have the result of a stillborn infant. I'm sure that this would be major news in the medical community.