New Pew study: Most Americans view abortion as moral issue | National Catholic Reporter

New Pew study: Most Americans view abortion as moral issue | National Catholic Reporter  The moral question is not for society but for the researchers and practitioners.  Because they are all embryologists they are familiar with the facts of embryology - the chief among them being that prior to gastrulation the zygote to blastocyst (you can't call it an organism because it has no organ systems) is potentially an organism and is under the genetic control of only one parent.  At gastrulation organ differentiation occurs and the influence of both parents first makes itself felt.  In other words, there is a profound difference between the two stages of development.  Anyone in the field who believes in souls would cite gastrulation as when it was important to preserve the life.  Before, not so much.  The moral principle in ethics is about personal decision making, not public policy.  If the Church really believed in natural law ethics, it would bow to the judgement of the experts in this field and abandon its unscientific stance on protecting life from the moment of conception.  Gastrulation is where its at.