[Mark]

I have family members on both my dad's and mom's side of the family who are adopted, and I've known of many other people who have also adopted children or who are adopted themselves (or both!). I've seen the joys that these "unwanted" children have brought to the families who have adopted them, as well as the amazing people those children became. Does that influence the way I view abortion? Yeah.

I perhaps should expand my earlier comment to say that my pet peeve is that there are people who are far to quick to use abortion as an excuse for insisting that they can do anything they want to without consequenses.

Faunus is right - getting into a debate over religion or ethics is just needless, and a debate nobody's going to win. We'd all just wind up walking away with hurt feelings (because even if we had a debate on it, I somehow doubt anybody is going to change anybody else's mind on the subject, so I think it's best if we just agree to disagree).