Reply #169: Because towards the end of a pregnancy, [View All]

[Donald Ian Rankin]

the foetus is probably self aware enough to -just- count as an individual in its own right, so a woman isn't the only person affected by her decision to have an abortion.

A has no right to tell B what to do in purely private matters, but he/she does have the right to tell B not to interact with C in certain ways.

My position is somewhere between 2, with shades of 1 - I favour some controls on late term abortion, but I feel very strongly that until the foetus is self-aware abortion should always be legal.