OK, I’m coming out of the closet. I’m pro-life.

[Vattel]

45. I think the issue is complicated.

To grossly over-simplify my very tentative thinking on the issue, I believe that once a fetus has a mind (i.e., mental states) it has a right to life just like you and I. Prior to that, abortion is morally unproblematic--pregnant women clearly have a right to get one. After the fetus has a right to life, things are more complicated. But abortion isn't necessarily wrong at that point for the obvious reason that women have a right to control their bodies. Even with my right to life, I don't automatically have a right to use someone else's body to survive, and the same can be said of a fetus. Thus, in a case of pregnancy due to rape, where the woman is not responsible for the fetus needing her body for survival, she clearly has a right to deny the fetus the use of her body even if the fetus has a right to life. On the other hand, if a woman voluntarily seeks to get pregnant, and the fetus is not a serious threat to her health, I am inclined to think that she should get an early abortion to avoid violating the right to life that the fetus will acquire once it has mental states.

Again, all of this is very tentative. The only thing I am sure about is that no one will agree with me.