Abortion: 10 years as an atheist and I still don't get it

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

So please explain to me why abortion is morally acceptable or what I might be missing.

You said it yourself - a foetus doesn't have the status of personhood.  Morality is only applicable to persons.  I view abortion as no more morally wrong than burning off a wart, removing an appendix, or pulling a tooth.

Furthermore, I'm having more than a little trouble with your stricture that it is wrong to kill anything that is alive.  Does this include disease vectors?  Celery stalks?  Suppose the police shoot and kill a man who is holding a classroom of  children hostage.  Is killing this man immoral if it prevents the deaths of 30 children?  While I understand that appeal to consequence is a fallacy, it is a very subjective and variable one.


Boru