No, John, we have legally concluded that we don't KNOW...or that we can't agree on the matter...

You cannot make a law banning something if you can't agree on how to define it. (or at least you probably shouldn't, anyway...)

The real truth of the matter is that the laws as they exist in this society are always an attempt to deal as pragmatically with the situation as can be managed. This is true of most laws in most societies. Lawmakers pretend that they are dealing with pure morality... (heh!) when actually they are dealing with pragmatism. They are dealing with what they think is most workable and feasible in the society of their time.

Thus all societies make a big thing about how bad "murder" is...because that's what seems acceptable to most people (not surprisingly)...yet they are quite happy to murder any number of foreign people in something called "war". They're proud of their soldier boys who go out and murder for the nation.

It's pragmatism, John. Don't even fool yourself into thinking it isn't. The society of today has decided that, all factors taken inton consideration, it is probably more pragmatic and feasible to allow a certain number of abortions under certain circumstances than it is to attempt to prevent ALL abortions...which attempt never succeeds ANYWAY. It's a compromise...as are most legal situations.