Abortion is a difficult moral issue.

Abortion is a difficult moral issue.

Noam Chomsky has said that he would err on the side of being pro choice but could see both points of view, and I would have to agree.

Where does life begin exactly? I don't think you can really say with any certainty it is at any exact point. Clearly very few people would agree with killing a healthy embryo seconds before birth. But at the other extreme, given that a foetus a few days old is just a ball of a few cells that has a good chance of not becoming an embryo how can this really be considered a human being. It differs very little from a sperm or an egg, and few seem to care much about them being killed.

I have to say I'm not overly pleased at the Church's intervention on the issue, and I think religion should stay out of politics.

But where to draw the line? I think it is a difficult moral issue and it has to be an arbitrary time. I think 24 weeks is about right.