Look at this...

Are we really going to say that it should be legal to kill this? Just look at it. Look at it long and hard.

When people say they are pro-choice ask them what they are choosing to do. Make them say it. It won't come out of their mouths very easily. This should tell us something.

Scot Klusendorf has a great approach to discussing the pro-life issue here. He centers his position around the acyromyn SLED. I have found this very helpful:

Size: True, embryos are smaller than newborns and adults, but why is that relevant? Do we really want to say that large people are more human than small ones? Men are generally larger than women, but that doesn’t mean that they deserve more rights. Size doesn’t equal value.

Level of development: True, embryos and fetuses are less developed than you and I. But again, why is this relevant? Four year-old girls are less developed than 14 year-old ones. Should older children have more rights than their younger siblings? Some people say that self-awareness makes one human. But if that is true, newborns do not qualify as valuable human beings. Six-week old infants lack the immediate capacity for performing human mental functions, as do the reversibly comatose, the sleeping, and those with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Environment: Where you are has no bearing on who you are. Does your value change when you cross the street or roll over in bed? If not, how can a journey of eight inches down the birth-canal suddenly change the essential nature of the unborn from non-human to human? If the unborn are not already human, merely changing their location can’t make them valuable.

Degree of Dependency: If viability makes us human, then all those who depend on insulin or kidney medication are not valuable and we may kill them. Conjoined twins who share blood type and bodily systems also have no right to life.

In short, it’s far more reasonable to argue that although humans differ immensely with respect to talents, accomplishments, and degrees of development, they are nonetheless equal because they share a common human nature.

P.S. - Can we please stop using the statement, "You can't legislate morality."? Sure we can, we do it all the time. Ever heard of a traffic ticket? Can the law change your heart? Never. So we need both, external laws (this is the role of the government, to restrain evil, check out Romans 13) and internal heart change. Internal heart change is God's job, through God's people, the church. Abortion = evil, thus the job of the government is to stop it through external laws. External and internal. We need both.

(HT: MTR)