The Case Against Abortion Doesn't Require Religion

I have been opposed to abortion since the very first moment I learned of it. For me, it is a pre-political and pre-ideological opposition. Growing up, I was neither knowledgeable about, nor much interested in, the broader world around me, but I knew one thing: I was against killing babies, and I did not understand those who were not. I was not led to this position. Indeed, if anything, I arrived at it despite my environment, not because of it. In England, most people are pro-choice, and, insofar as the topic ever comes up, it is within a context that has never had any purchase on me: religion. As a staunch defender of conscience, I am friendly towards, and respectful of, religious believers. But I am not one myself, I have never been one myself, and I am not close to being one myself.