We all hear a lot of rhetoric about abortion these days, but we don't get many facts.
Facts are less strident than bumper sticker slogans and require a bit more thought.
In the Bible, there are many specific rules regulating behavior, but there is absolutely no mention of abortion. There is no commandment against abortion in the Old Testament nor in the New. In the American Life League newsletter, Professor Charles Rick acknowledges that the Human Life Amendment would allow state legislatures to outlaw the pill. Scientists estimate that about half or one-third of all fertilized human eggs, or zygotes, are discarded by the body before they can implant. At this point there is no neocortex, i.e. no higher brain function.