[MichaelCrawford]

I believe life _continues_ at conception but began about one billion years ago.

I am pro choice.

I know very well that abortion stops a beating heart.

I know very well the foetus cries out in pain, desperately struggles to survive.

But even so I am pro-choice because the alternative is far worse: women will have abortions.

That has been the case since the Dawn of Humanity.

UCSC Anthropologist Stuard Schlegel was told be a Tiruray woman - Mindanao rainforest village dwellers in the Philippines - that there was a certain herb that the Tiruray women use to induce miscarriage.

Dr. Schlegel of course wanted to know what that herb was as it would be of huge benefit to women in the industrialized world, but she refused to identify it was doing so could lead all the men to murder all the women.

That's known as a "Pessary". The Hippocratic Oath forbids the administration of Pessaries.

Hippocrates was an Ancient Greek.