Abortion

[Ebowed]

Somewhere between 30% to 60% of fertilized eggs (zygotes) will never be implanted, without the female's knowledge.  Another large percentage of implanted zygotes will die, again without the female's knowledge, before becoming in any way developed into a recognizable human embryo or fetus.

If life begins at conception, consider the consequences:
- Emergency contraception (the morning-after pill) would be a form of murder equivelant to stabbing your relative or shooting a cop.
- Scientists who were able to discover that conception can occur in a petri dish are murderers since they didn't attempt to implant the zygote into a woman's uterus as soon as possible.
- Women who get abortions, an experience that over a third of women go through, are murderers who must go to jail.

Why is it that the pro-life movement refuses to endorse jail time for women who get abortions?  They shift the blame entirely to the doctors who perform them.  The woman chose to murder her own child (according to their thinking), yet they allow her to get off scot-free.  Why is this?

[Ebowed]

- Women who get abortions, an experience that over a third of women go through, are murderers who must go to jail.

Link me.

The number varies widely.  I was told at a church four years ago that the figure was 40% of women go through an abortion at some point in their lives.  On the other hand this website (first result in a Google search) says that
Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion.[1] Twenty-four percent of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion.

The Washington Post also suggests that about one fourth of pregnancies are ending in abortion (excluding miscarriages) in recent years.  But it also says that the rate has been dropping, so the number of women who have had abortions since it was legalized would overall be higher.

The number of women who have ever had an abortion, I couldn't find, but it would be higher than the number of pregnancies that end in abortion per year, simply because it's impossible for every woman to be pregnant each year.

[Ebowed]

The issue of 'partial birth' abortion is pretty much a straw man.

[Ebowed]

I would support federally mandated acceptance of gay marriage.