I appreciate the honesty in your response considering your stand on abortion.
As a mother I cannot even consider this an option any more. I had an unwanted pregnancy about 10 years ago ( once my family was complete , struggling to make ends meet and problems with my marriage ) went off to have an abortion at 8-10 weeks but on seeing the ultrasound of the image of a baby I concluded that my decision to abort would be on par with murder and so I left the clinic. I wasn't wholeheartedly supported by my decision (due to our circumstances )but felt that it was out of my hands. Interestingly from that moment on I became maternal and excited at the prospect of another baby but less than 2 weeks later I suffered a miscarriage.
I'm not encouraging abortion but I don't think we (as righteous people) should have a say in a hosts decision about her body. My decision not to abort was heavily influenced by emotion .
A foetus is not a viable human being , it is potentially alive only once it reaches 22-24 weeks gestation which is when you cannot abort.
I believe we (as righteous people) have a duty to protect all human life, especially those whom can't defend themselves.
I believe a 'host' is just that.. one who has been given the privilege of developing another (completely separate) life within them, I believe the host has a duty of care to do all it can to see that child develop in the best way possible.
I believe the soul is separate to the body, the soul is you and me when we are first conceived and we still exist when our bodies die.
It is the soul that makes a man... Not any part of his anatomy, lest an amputee be less a man then a full bodied man.
The body is simply the vehicle God has chosen to bless us with to glorify and enjoy Him and each other in this life.