Abortion: moral? or legal?

Hot button topic, tis always fun.

Personally I feel that its a womans choice, she is after all the one who has to or not live with either side of that coin.

But for the sake of arguement and to see if I can change my opinion here we go ...

Pro lifers, for lack of a better term, say that life starts at conception.

Yet more oft than not when a person is brain dead those given the power choose to remove life support. Brain waves don't start until the pregnancy is 6 weeks along.

From my understanding your pronounced dead if your heart wont beat. A fetuses heart doesn't start beating until the pregnancy is 3 weeks along.

Also its should be noted that a baby's organs are not fully form until 37 weeks have passed, but babys born before then do have some chance depending on how developed they are. These are babys that are normally refered to as a "premie" indicating that the were born before all systems were fully formed and functional. Premies often have multiple problems that develop later in life centered around brain development, which makes me wonder if that is what caused the early birth.

But a fetus is not a fully formed person, so can you really use the same metrics to determine life? It represents the potential for life, but yet it can't survive on its own.

This is why I consider abortion a moral decision; how do you decide if and when a fetus becomes a human being?

Many have tried to get that very question answered and legalized and I don't know of one that has stuck for the whole of the USA; Its a moral decision.

Christ taught to give on to Cesar what is Cesar and give to God what is God's. Moral decisions are God's realm, laws are the governments at least in my understanding of separation of church and state. Therefore would it not be wrong for one to impose on the others realm of power?

Which means that the government has not right to impose laws about moral decisions.

You want to end abortion, change the way pregnancy is seen, change the way society sees a woman who has given birth. The chances of effecting to a 100% birth rate is not that great, but that is where faith and hope come in and lets not forget lots and lots of dedication and hard work.

So in the end I guess you can say I am of both sides of this argument.

what say you?