I don't believe abortion is legitimately a subject for legislation and I think most of the arguments pro and con are red herrings. A woman's right to control her own body, for instance, is a nonsense claim, it's not a matter of rights at all because if a woman actually *could* control her own body the issue would never arise, there would be no unwanted pregnancies. The issue arises because she doesn't have that control. The "it's murder" argument doesn't wash with me either, that's a powerfully emotive claim whose purpose is to paralyze thought. The "life begins at..." arguments seem similarly pointless to me, life begins at the moment of conception and I don't see how it could be otherwise. This society has always accepted that there are circumstances under which it's permissible to kill a person, so the real question is, is this one of them? I don't know. Most days I think it's a matter of personal morality involving only the woman and her medical service providers and is nobody else's business. And on alternate Tuesdays I wonder if I'm entitled to have an opinion at all, because I'm a man, the question is never going to have the immediacy and urgency for me that it does for a pregnant woman, not even if I'm the father.