One of the current controversial hot topics is abortion and I feel the need for another exposition. People say they are either pro-life or pro-choice and strictly speaking I am pro-choice. But viewing the problem from two concrete lenses is a great oversimplification. The preferable view is that abortion becomes more morally reprehensible the further time has elapsed since conception. That statement is a better description of my stance. The further from conception the more I am pro-life. So where is the line drawn?

An amazing amount of development actually occurs during the first trimester. During week eight, or two months, neurons are increasing by 250,000 every minute. The fetus already looks like a human. Second trimester abortions seem barbaric with those considerations. The real issue, however, isn't a debate over when the embryo or fetus becomes a human being. It is a human being at conception, the point at which it will grow into an adult, and before which the potential for growth into adulthood is physically impossible. All abortion is killing human beings. The real issue is whether such a human is conscious and/or capable of suffering. Determining that is unclear, but it's obvious that both consciousness and suffering are dependent on developed nervous systems.