Abortion: the egregious slaughter of the innocent

We generally agree, as humans, that human life is sacrosanct. It is one of the greatest cultural condemnations we can deliver, that human life has no value. Yet abortion does precisely that: it places the value of human life at zero.

I spent much of my life as a classical liberal who would have agreed that, within the precinct of ones own body, the right of self-determination is absolute. And in general, I still hold this to be true. Across a swathe of issues from transsexualism to tattooing...