I've had a look at some of the quotes you posted above Bex -- though please bear in mind that quotes do not constitute evidence in and of themselves. This is a logical fallacy called the argument from authority. Furthermore, as horrific as many of these quotes are, I am also aware that this compilation was put together for the purposes of pro-life propaganda and therefore is highly likely to be presenting a skewed version of the actual truth. At the moment I'm looking around at other sites that give a different picture of what's going on, and other perspectives, in order to try to get a more balanced view of the whole.

My own feelings at the moment are that a fertilised egg is a potential human life. It is a little bundle of cells which will, under the right circumstances, become a human being. At that very early stage, I do not think it is logical to equate it with a more fully-developed fetus, or a baby, and it should not have the exact same rights. I imagine how I'd feel with it inside of me now and if I wanted an abortion for whatever reason, I think I'd be OK with that at the stage of a few weeks. More than that and I'd start to feel like I had a person inside of me and morally I would begin to feel it was wrong to harm it. I agree with RAZD's pictures of the spectrum. That's what this is, and what you have at the red end is not the same as the finished product at the blue end. The reason many people disagree about abortion is because it's difficult to know where to try to pin things in the middle.