Hardly; it's just my opinion. I've no intention of forcing it on others, because, as I said before, I don't support anti-abortion legislation or politicians. The only reason I find abortion wrong is when two people decide to shirk the responsibility to the developed fetus that will become a human being in nine months.
Isn't the whole issue predicated upon whether your responsibility to yourself (and, I guess, to a lesser extent partner) is more or less important than towards what is at the time a set of cells? To me it's entirely irrelevant whether the foetus will be a human being in xx weeks, so long as it isn't at the time of abortion; I'm not sure why abortion is considered as universally shirking responsibility when it is AFAIK rarely taken lightly and, even if it is in some cases, doesn't mean that holds for all cases with the same circumstances. To me responsibility simply equates to taking the right decision; and for a abortion I think the rightness of that decision is very much down to the woman (primarily) and man (secondarily) involved.
EDIT; it increasingly strikes me, actually, that when we get onto this whole 'taking responsibility' thing, it's not about taking responsibility at all but mandating the physical and emotional discomfort of unwanted pregnancy and possibly subsequent child rearing as a
punishment for having sex (regardless of what precautions were taken).
Albiet, I'd still be interested to know opinions from yourself and indeed anyone who is against non-reproductive sex RE: post vasectomy/hystorectomy. Especially christian (or otherwise religious) peeps, as I doubt sterilization was available (or at least, survivable voluntary sterilization) when the major religions were forming their various rules.
Kaz, we were all parasitic cells at one point, but aren't you glad your parents didn't treat you like that while you were in the womb?
Technically, if they did, he wouldn't regret it because he'd never be aware of it. i mean, there is an infinite number of people that will never exist anyways, for whatever reason, and there's no more reason I can see to regard abortion in that context than there is for miscarriage or a different set of chromosomes being selected, etc.
(for point of reference, I was an unplanned baby; although certain other personal/private issues mean I wasn't necessarily
unwanted, so it's slightly different from this type of scenario)