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I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species, we´ve fairy comprehensively demonstrated that we don´t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we´ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.

I don´t understand, then, why, in the midst of all this, pregnant women – women trying to make a rational decisions about their futures and, usually, that of their families, too – should be subject to more pressure about preserving life than, say, Vladimir Putin, the World Bank, or the Catholic Church.

However, what I do belive to be genuinely sacred – and, indeed, more useful to the earth as a whole – is trying to ensure that there are as few unbalanced, destructive people as possible. By whatever rationale you use, ending a pregnancy 12 weeks into gestation is incalculably more moral that bringing an unwanted child into this world.