Because I speak standard English and possess a full set of reasonably well-maintained teeth abortion enthusiasts often assume that I must share their passion for the wholesale slaughter of the unborn. Once at a party I struck up a conversation with a woman who insisted on telling me, in painful detail, about her work as a lobbyist for the National Abortion Rights Action League. To be confronted with a breathing illustration of the banality of evil is to face an awkward social situation. George W. Bush observed that reasonable people can disagree about abortion and this may be true. Certainly the president promotes good relations within his own family by saying so.
Abortion is, as a matter of biological fact, homicide.
At every stage of development a fetus is a living example of Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Either we recognize the value of human life at every stage and in all its manifestations or we do not. There is no middle ground. Abortion promoters argue that society has no legitimate interest in protecting life before birth. Each of us can either accept that argument or adhere to the ancient idea that human life is intrinsically precious.