When is something a living thing of its own?
Are your skin cells living things? And sperm? What about the bacteria inside your body? Are these living things?
I believe that a baby is part of a Woman, until a certain point, which I haven't really decided. At the earliest, it is when the baby could sustain life outside of the mother. At the latest, it is when the baby is born. Under this thinking, "killing" the baby, which is more really terminating the baby, is equivilent to cutting off a finger or an ear or a toe. And people give me the argument that "oh, but the baby could be adopted and not terminated if the mother isn't ready". Yes, it could. There are more people looking for babies to adopt than there are babies available. This applies to white, healthy babies. What about non-healthy babies? They should be put into foster homes? They don't count? The fact is adoption is not a posibility to non "perfect" babies. A woman has the right to end the life of a part of her body. And then I get the religious argument. This is what I have to say to that: Religions prohibited birth control. Do you not use birth control? Relgion prohibited over eating (it's one of the 7 deadly sins), does that mean there aren't fat people? Religion says there shall be no greed. Does that mean that we are not all greedy? Relgion says thou shall not lie. Do we not lie every day?