Abortion: Compromise Solution

Central to the issue of abortion is deciding when life begins. If you believe that life begins at conception, then you will be against abortion. If you believe that life begins when the embryo is out of somebody else's body, then you will be in favor of abortion.

I will meet both half-way. Here are my reasons.

Law does not protect life; it protects human life. And human life is not human until it starts to look human, which is in the third trimester. In the first trimester the embryo is a clump of cells, and in the second trimester the embryo looks like a fish. Neither of these qualify as human life. Human life begins when it starts to look human.

For this reason I propose a compromise solution. Let people be able to abort embryos in first and second trimesters, and make it illegal to abort a third-trimester embryo. Put the rights of the living humans above the rights of a clump of cells; and protect life when it actually starts to look human.