That's a good way of stating it, SK. I think my opinion falls somewhere around there.

Em not too sure where you want us to go
on this..or understand the question..
Do you wanna know how to make a baby ??
So em not sure how to answer.

That couldn't be the most beautiful feeling ever..when your baby plays havoc in your womb..but admittedly..when it comes to comparing pain..nothing can out do..giving birth..lol.

Just knowing that your responsible for a new life is somewhat overpowering..
No shit...but when my 1st was born..
I was waiting for the manual..i even hounded my midwife.

I didn't want it to go anywhere I just wanted some opinions without all the debating and arguing. Not very exciting I know. I was wondering mostly because I started to think about life as in terms of baking (weird I know). I was thinking, if you want a cake so you start to make it and then you don't want it you just stop making it but if it's in the oven already and then you decide you don't want it you don't just take it out halfway and toss it you wait for it to finish baking because maybe you'll want it later. If you don't want it later somebody else will because everybody likes cake right? When is a cake a cake? Is it when the ingredients are mixed or when it comes out of the oven... maybe it's somewhere inbetween. This isn't a statement about abortion although I am pro-life... it's just a weird thought about baking. Good thing the two weren't combined though because fetus cake doesn't sound good.

my stance on death penalty:
In principle, I'm for it. Some guy kills 12 people, sure, let 'im fry. However, the system sucks. Just watch either of the Paradise Lost movies. So I'm against it only because of the system that determines who gets put to death

Isn't that just a case of horses-for-courses?

As for the death-penalty, why not save everyone a whole lot of time and money by aborting all the murderers, rapists etc. before they have a chance to leave the womb?

'life' begins when the cells start to divide but i am pro-choice too and also believe that the soul only enters the phoetus after the 5th month.

Re: When life begins.
 

The very moment of conception.

Uh... There's a flaw with your statement. How are you going to predetermine who is or is not going to turn out to be a psychopath? That's not something you're given to know about your own child while it's still in the womb. It's usually in the developemental stages that you recognize those tendencies.

I say legalize abortion and extend the time frame to 80 years