"Pro-Choicers" tend to either believe that the unborn are not alive, or that the rights of the mother to control her body, outweigh the rights of the unborn not to be killed. They attempt to make abortion sound compassionate, logical, and democratic. Unfortunately, they are using flawed logic, and in the case of when life begins, logic not supported by science.

1.    No one knows when life begins.

            From a scientific standpoint this argument is bogus. DNA, sex, facial features, body type, color of hair, eyes, and skin have all already been decided at conception. Creating new human life takes two parents, and the father won't add anything else after conception.

           There is one point where a person starts to develop, where they become a unique individual. Before conception, there is the sperm and the egg, neither of which is cable of developing into anything beyond what it is without something very significant being added. Afterward, the embryo starts to grow and develop on its own. All it needs to continue, is food, fluids, and oxygen. Nothing else needs to be added, and it won't stop until death.  

2.    Every woman has the right to her own body.

              A woman's body does not have two heartbeats, two different brain patterns, two different blood types, and two different sexes.  The right to her body does not extend to the living human being growing inside her.  That human has rights too.  In fact, the Constitution guarantees the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  Abortion denies the unborn child these inalienable rights.

            Not all responsibilities are asked for. If there is anyone we have natural responsibilities to, it is our kids. That is the reason that fathers who may never know their children can be required to pay child support. They are expected to help their children simply because they are their parents (and to at least some extent, because they choose to have sex). The very least that should be expected from parents is for them not kill their children (and the very least society should be asked is to make this easier on the young families).

3.    A fetus is not a person.

            Where does life begin?  Is there some magical point during gestation that a mass of tissue suddenly becomes a life?  Of course not!  When a baby is born, the only thing that changed was the environment in which he or she lived in and the way in which he or she was nurtured.  In fact, it has been proven that a fetus can live outside the womb as early as 19 weeks!  So does this mean that a baby born at 19 weeks is a person, but a fetus aborted at 21 weeks is not a person?  The mere concept is ridiculous.  The term "fetus" is no different from infant than the term adolescent is from adult.  These are all stages in the development of a human person.  Life begins at conception, when the father and mother contributed to the fertilization of the egg and the full genetic makeup of the person is created.

4.    Restricting abortion "rights" is an imposition on one's morality.

            This statement can only be made by one who is uneducated on the horrific nature of abortion.  There is not a single moral values system that says that the dismemberment of a child is moral.  No values system approves puncturing and crushing a child's skull.  Abortion even goes against the moral grain of the pro-choice crowd, but these people have rationalized and watered down the concept of abortion to the point at where they are impervious to its immorality.