>We consider it a crime to kill a new-born child. If so, it can't be right
>casually to end the life of the same organism several hours earlier. It
>takes some effort to believe, as one watches a child be born, that one is
>also watching the conferral of full human rights on something that lacked
>them entirely shortly before.
Shortly? Who advocates aborting 8-month fetuses?
Is every sperm sacred too?
Doug