Why SHOULD abortion be illegal?

PLEASE note, although IAMACATHOLIC usually gives correct evaluation of stands of the Catholic Church, here his answer is wrong both in content and implication. The catholic Church NOW differentiates between direct abortion, and indirect abortion where the intent is to save the mother. Hence ectopic pregnancies (and others) CAN be terminated. In detail here is their position: ======================================... The teachings of the Catholic Church admit of no doubt on the subject. Such moral questions, when they are submitted, are decided by the Tribunal of the Holy Office. Now this authority decreed, 28 May, 1884, and again, 18 August, 1889, that "it cannot be safely taught in Catholic schools that it is lawful to perform . . . any surgical operation which is directly destructive of the life of the fetus or the mother." Abortion was condemned by name, 24 July, 1895, in answer to the question whether when the mother is in immediate danger of death and there is no other means of ...  more