IMHO, the big problem with the discussion about Abortion in America today is that it always revolves around legal decisions and not scientific fact, something Rick Santorum pointed out not too long ago.
Scientifically, the "fetus" is a human being: He/She has human blood, human flesh, human DNA, which makes him or her human; not a dog, not a cat, not a bird, but human. And when he or she is sucked through a vacuum tube and destroyed, what has just been destroyed is a human life. That is science. That is fact.
But what is all too often being focused on instead of this scientific fact is the "legalisms" of "personhood", whether or not the child in the womb is legally a person. Now, does anyone know what is wrong with that? What is wrong with that is, that is what was done to the slaves. Their blood and DNA were human too, they were human beings too, but the law denied them personhood, and that is what is being done here too. There was no scientific basis to deny slaves their human rights, only legal decisions based on predjudice and wrong-headed thinking, and the same goes for the child in the womb today.
Abortion is the destruction of human life. Thats science. I don't care what a judge says or what a lawyer says or what some Democrat says: What I am saying is SCIENCE and is FACT. The child in the womb, scientifically is a human being, and therefore killing him or her is murder.
EDIT: And it is noteworthy to add that the DNA of a fetus is uniquely different the the mother's DNA, which pretty much blows away the "its my body" argument. That uniqiue DNA is PROOF that the child in the womb is an indivudual person, not part of the mother's body.