The President talked about choice and privacy. He mentioned the risk to the mother of carrying a child to term, and the trauma of delivering an infant with serious congenital defect. Responding to any of these issues, however, requires an answer to a prior question about the nature of abortion itself. On this question there was an unusual silence. It's a question no one talks about.
Abortion involves killing and discarding something that's alive.
Whether it's right or not to take the life of any living thing depends entirely upon what kind of being it is. The answer one gives is pivotal, the deciding element that trumps all other considerations. Let me put the issue plainly. If the unborn is not a human being, no justification for abortion is necessary. However, if the unborn is a human being, no justification for abortion is adequate.