All this talk about “when does it become a baby?” is pretty silly. Life doesn’t begin at conception; it begins before conception; the egg and sperm are living things. (And therefore sacred!) It’s just a steady continuum between a single cell, and a fully grown adult.

The proof of this, if proof were needed, is that even the most Catholic couple in the world feels infinitely more pain at the loss of a small child than they would do for an early miscarriage, which they might not even know about.

The only sensible thing to say about abortion is that they should be performed as early as possible. To this end, early abortion should be made much easier than it is at present. Of course the “pro-life” movement will never have that, so the result will be late abortions and unwanted children.