Is there any way in which your views on this are any less "moralistic", or less impicitly "emotion-sodden", Steve? That doesn't imply anything about their validity. It just means that you hold them strongly.

When it comes to addressing the problem of a high abortion rate I doubt if there actually too much disagreement between your view and the one Vin Garbutt appears to hold, and that I personally hold - there need to be changes in society that would reduce the pressures that push many women into having abortions which they would choose` not to if they really had a free choice.

Ideas about changing the law to stop abortions are a red herring and an irrelevancy - aside from anything else, they wouldn't work. Truly free choice, I would argue, would mean far fewer abortions.