Your position on abortion

[Engineer]

Strongly pro-life. 

Some have stated that abortion should be legal say up to 18 -20 weeks or until the fetus can survive outside the womb.  Go back 30+ years, at that time at 6.5 - 7 months the fetus could survive outside the womb, otherwise it would most likely die.  Today's technologies has extended that back to the 18- 20 time frame.  Will technology in the next 30+ years extend it back all the way to the egg?  It is possible and most likely probable.  Now you have a problem with picking an arbitary date like 18 weeks, it is subject to change.  It really boils down to when life begins, at conception or at birth.

A fertilized human egg, the beginning of that 'clump of cells' always produces a human being (unless it has genetic problems).  Never a fish, never a dog.  This, precluding any religious overtures, makes a compelling argument for life at conception. 

If you then feel that life is started at conception, but still allow abortion (let's leave out abortion in cases of rape and the endangerment of the life of the mother - but not the health, becuase it is too open to interpretation), then let's extend the time for an abortion until 2 days after the baby is born.  They used to do this in some communist countries.  Then the mother can decide.  A birth is safer than an abortion (statistically proven), and that way any 'defects', such as extra fingers, downes syndrome or wrong eye color, can be spotted and the child 'aborted'.