False Choice

Personally, I am against abortion for any reason. Rape and incest are lame excuses - the camel nose under the tent - an attempt to find common ground and get you to agree that abortion is acceptable in some circumstances. Same argument as "saving the life of the mother." Because if you agree to any exception, what is the NEXT concession you will make? 

Fact is, if those three reasons were the ONLY allowable justifications for abortion, there would be merely hundreds performed, not millions. 

Lies, all of it. So I make no exceptions.

HOWEVER, making abortion universally illegal as an elective surgical procedure is not the answer. It must be an option, a woman's choice, with God as her judge, not me. 

So, abortion should be kept safe and legal by the secular government.

That is not to diminish the formidable moral side of the choice. Whether or not to murder one's child is to be left to a girl or woman who must find the spiritual maturity to recognize her immortal soul's peril before acting against herself. Reconciliation of this spiritual crisis is between the mother and her Creator.

On the other hand (I am an octopus, here), murder of an adult is illegal and the secular government does not give anyone - woman or otherwise - a choice whether to obey that law. Government does not grant an exception to elect to exercise an alternative for any reason - murder is universally prohibited. 

Now, before you raise the exception of "self defense," don't be disingenuous. That is NOT murder. It may be killing and results in terminating a life, but murder is a deliberate act of aggression against another, not self-protection from the aggression of another.

I think I just came a full 180 degrees! Abortion can be made illegal because it terminates the life of an unborn human, just like shooting, strangling, or stabbing terminates the life of a born human. 

So... abortion is murder, and the government can prohibit it. I didn't expect that stark a revelation. There is no constitutional right that blocks government from acting against abortion as murder. We just need the courage to speak the truth. No additional religious argument needed. On secular grounds, abortion is not different from murder. 

Abortion is murder.