"steve-and you are not resorting to emotion?.would my enquiry have been answered if i used the nice clinical word "termination"?"

No, abortion is fine by me. As for not resorting to emotion, well I'm not Mr Spock as it happens. But if you want to talk to me about abortion I'll pick you up straight away if you start playing the emotion card. This is not an emotional nor even a moral matter. It's a practical issue that requires practical solutions. That means fighting inequality and sexism, confronting poverty, and ensuring that all young people have that best kind of sex education (and step away, pastor) that equips them to respect themselves and others and enables them to make good life-choices for themselves. It's bad enough that anti-abortionists (which is what they are but not what they want to be called) call themselves, utterly dishonestly, "pro-life." Yuk. Nasty people.