I would never attempt to justify the act of abortion. Personally, I find it reprehensible and as wicked a sin as there is. But I am still pro-choice and IMO, there is justification for allowing a woman to choose. In fact, more so than there is justification to not allow her to choose.

It's pretty simple. As a general rule, I don't support any laws that restrict an individual from doing anything that doesn't intrude on the life, liberty or pursuit of happiness of another. And therein lies the conflict of abortion. If I support a law forcing a woman to carry to term and give birth, I'm violating this rule. But also, the argument can be made that allowing her to abort violates the rule too, because it intrudes on the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of her unborn child. However, this argument is flawed because allowing her to abort requires no law whatsoever. And even if we remove that distinction, we are still left with a conflict. Whose rights trump whose? And in this case, I just can't see how the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of the unborn can possibly supercede that of the already born.

Or to put it another way, if an ignorant, life-hating wh ore wants to kill her own unborn baby, it's between her, her conscience, and her god. Leave me out of it.