Quote:It's indeterminate exactly when a fetus becomes a person, however one defines that. If there were a definitive answer here then the abortion question would not be controversial. I don't see a small group of cells being a person and most Americans agree with that view, so an abortion very early in the pregnancy is only considered murder by a small subset of Americans. So the best answer to satisfy the most people in the case of rape-induced pregnancy is an immediate "morning after pill." A rape victim doesn't need to wait to find out whether or not she's pregnant before taking preventative action.


As you get to the later stages of pregnancy, where the fetus has arms, legs, a brain, and working internal organs, then a majority of Americans consider abortion wrong (but only a minority of our ruling elderly Ivy League lawyers). There's really no excuse for putting off an abortion for months after the woman knows she is pregnant except if the health of the mother becomes seriously endangered.