As a St. Louisan, I'd like to note that I have no idea where Skidmore, Missouri is.

Total Population: 342 100.0 %
Sex & Age
Male 173 50.6 %
Female 169 49.4 % (1)

Hey, I'm pro-choice (anti-life? lol), so I'll put that at the start. But some of you anti-choice (pro-life)'ers might want to consider this:

God/nature (whatever your personal belief) is responsible for aborting nearly 70% of conceptions. As with most things in the world, us petty humans cannot compete with the natural process. Conception is far from perfect.

Because of abnormalities, nature has aborted about 55% of all fertilized eggs by this point [the second week of gestation]. Another 12% or more will spontaneously abort sometime after.

Source: Childbirth by Choice www.cbctrust.com ... admittedly, not the best source, but I'm fairly sure it's accurate, given my brother's description from med school. I'm too busy at work to get a textbook source, but feel free to refute with better sources.

Sorry, found a better source. Stanford.edu, http://mednews.stanford.edu/stanmed/2004fall/young.html

Even after implantation, spontaneous abortions can occur. In the normal course of human reproduction, about 60 percent of embryos spontaneously abort and are simply flushed in the course of the menstrual cycle.

And just so I don't go into off-topic irrelevance (of which, admittedly, I am often guilty), this story appears legit (according to GoogleNews) and is very, very sad. Because it apparently involved a live birth, I am not sure what abortion has to do with this.

In any event, this is a tragedy, and saddens me incredibly. People often suck.

I'm not sure that anybody thinks that abortion is good, HyperX, but clearly some forms of killings are allowable/justified. Defence of self, defence of others, unavoiadable accident, etc.

Clearly, while most people would not argue that killing is bad, there's a continuum of 'acceptability' given the circumstances. Where exactly that line is drawn is a personal choice. Some see euthanasia as humane and perfectly acceptable (though ideally, killing old people is bad if that person really wants to die and will do so painfully in any event, that can be seen as the individual's choice), some see limited abortion as acceptable (i.e. health of mother), some see all abortion as acceptable (i.e. the woman's right to control the next nine months of her own body). For some, it's not even about killing, because of the belief that life does not form until the fetus is viable.

Regardless, it's pretty hard to sway people on where they stand on that line.