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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Life begins at conception.   I would say for myself that I am against abortion - but I think the choice should be available.  But life still begins at conception.  If you are going to have an abortion you might as well deal with the reality that a life is being lost.  [/quote]

But this doesn't correspond to most people's emotional reality.  Most people don't mourn the loss of an early miscarriage the same way they would mourn the loss of a stillbirth or child's death.  Most people are much more comfortable with abortion in the early stages, than they are with later-term abortions.  The "life" being lost when it's a zygote just is not the same thing as the life being lost when it's fully developed.  Certainly, most parents doing IVF discard embryos without too much trauma ... because they never really regarded those embryos as babies, but rather as potential babies.  Thus, a zygote/embryo is not really fully human, in my opinion, if we define "human" as an entity that is on par with all other humans.  "Life" and "human being" are not the same thing -- just think about it, a dead body is a human being, but there is no life.  Similarly, an embryo is alive, but not a human being. [/quote]

I definitely mourned my miscarriage (although I have not had a stillbirth to compare it to).  For someone to tell me that the fetus I was carrying wasn't a child. My child.  Is very upsetting.   But this is just how I feel.  I know others don't necessarily feel the same and I do see what you are saying.
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