Jamie:

I mean no disrespect to anyone engaging in the discussion, all of whom I respect, and I think the subject is a worthy and very difficult one. I just don’t think it is a discussion that belongs on this thread. Abortion is obviously a highly divisive topic; once having formed his (her) views , a person is extremely unlikely to be moved by argument.

Yes. What’s more, it’s another one of those things that almost always depends on nuances of one’s axiomatic assumptions. These disputes generally really don’t lead to a lot of new insight.