Late Term Abortion

[Lemur]

Both extremes in the abortion debate are illogical and unsupportable. "Life begins at conception" has serious holes in it, and in application quickly becomes unworkable. Note that the rhythm method, the only form of birth control approved by the Catholic Church, works by causing fertilized eggs to spontaneously abort. If the "life begins at conception" crowd believe what they say, then the Catholic Church is guilty of encouraging mass murder. Since the "life begins at conception" people are often Catholics, the cognitive dissonance is immediate and obvious.

On the other hand, the people who claim that a fetus is not human until fully born have painted themselves into a corner. "Life" is very hard to define, but a fetus one week from birth clearly meets the criteria.

As Poor Bloody Infantry pointed out, a logical compromise has been modeled by Europe, but due to Roe v. Wade, we are not free to make such an arrangement here. Honestly, I think Roe was the worst possible thing that could happen to both the pro-life and pro-choice camps. By creating a winner-take-all environment it really poisoned the debate.