What fascinates me is that now that I’ve had a surprise pregnancy at a bad time (and decided to parent), then gone on to be infertile and finally conceive twins — I would expect myself to be less pro-choice. Instead, I’ve become fiercly pro-choice. Somehow during my oldest’s infanthood I came to feel that that an embryo is both very much a baby, and yet developmentally so NOT a baby. So while I do feel like abortion is killing something, I have a hard time feeling like it’s killing a fully-fleshed person — especially when there are so many post-birth humans walking around in need of food, shelter, health insurance. It just seems crazy to me that the people we are killing so we can drink Coke (Ganges River polution) or drive huge cars (war for oil) — that those children of God have less value than a freaking soda or a gallon of gas — but people get all up in arms about a bunch of cells that will be a baby half a year into the future.
