Yes, zygots are terminated. This seems perfectly consistent in a society that supports death penalty punishment and pre-emptive military actions based on collective human decision in the absence of a scientific certainty of guilt. As a practical matter, the human race in not faced with imminent extinction. Indeed, humans are currently about as scarce as rodents and fruit flies.

Absent certain sectarian religious arguments, the case against dissolves into vapor. One glaring inconsistency in the religious argument is that many of the same groups that oppose abortion also oppose family planning that would obviate much of the demand for abortion, and that would help prevent spread of HIV-AIDS suffering.

While one is free to subscribe to 12th century religious thought, demanding that the balance of society, that believes otherwise, should be subject to your particular beliefs is illogic of the sort that results in terrorism in the name of religion and religious theocracies. Whether the issue is doctor assisted suicide or legal abortion, people should live according to their own beliefs, and exercise some tolerance for those that believe otherwise.

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