I traveled a long road from being pro-abort to pro-life. It took me about 4 or 5 years to go from being all “it’s my body,” to the middle (“abortion is wrong but I want it to be safe and legal”) to what I believe now, that abortion is murder.
What finally tipped the balance for me was studying dog genetics. That’s when I found out that, at the moment of conception, a full genome is created. That means the whole blueprint for a complete, mature human being is there at conception. Thus, if abortion is OK, then so is killing an inconvenient teenager. I had no doubt about the second being murder, so (so to speak) the second shoe dropped, and I “got it.”
That’s the intellectual conviction. Since then, and since becoming Catholic, I have become more and more deeply convicted, to the point where I see all babies, from the moment of conception, as precious gifts from God.
Well - you asked!
Ruthie