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God refuses to weigh in on the debate in a decisive manner. My arguments stem from law alone. It's hard enough to attempt a rational discussion of one topic without clouding it up with various theologies as well.

Your arguments aside, the vast majority of anti-abortionists absolutely cite God. To deny that is foolish.

The issue is one of vagueness in defining when a human begins to exist, and by what criteria we differentiate between a lump of dividing cells and a human being.

I absolutely agree with this.

But, to boil down the two sides in a less politically correct manner, they are "keep the fetus to term", and "kill the fetus". Then we can simply argue about whether and when a human fetus is really a living human being. If you want to base it on the same basis (brain activity) as those of us outside the womb, the fetus develops a functioning brain between the 7th and 10th week.

I certainly won't pretend to be an expert on baby development, but I really have a hard time grasping that a fetus weighing a few grams is in any way a "living human being". Yes, it may have brain activity but it certainly isn't viable outside of the womb (much like my brother in law). I could make the analogy that a 7-10 week fetus is more of a parasite, but that just leads me back to my brother in law joke.

Here is some research from Pew, showing how the opinion trends are shifting

Popular opinion trends mean nothing in a discussion like this.