I think you ask the wrong questions when you say, "Are you for or against abortion?"

Also, when asking whether it is public or private, religious or governmental, you miss the point.

It is a question of science.

We must answer the question:

At what point in development does a gestating human being become able to suffer?

Then we can answer the question not with a simple yea or nay, but with when and under what circumstances.

As this is Interfaithforums, I must assert that religion has no purchase in the matter of abortion. I don't care if you believe there is an all knowing, all judgemental being who wrote a book that says the human soul enters the body at conception. Matters of public interest (As abortion is ultimately a question of murder or not murder, it clearly belongs in public discourse.), can only be resolved through reason and evidence. Until you can give objective reasons and evidence that there is such thing as god and soul, further, that said god wrote something on the topic of abortion, your religious opinion diserves the same amount of respect as those of astrologists and moonies.

For the record, as it has been demonstrated that a prematurly born infant can survive outside of the womb as early as six months into the pregnance, I would put my 'never after' line very early on. I think that line should be determined by the experts, and I assure you, they wear lab coats, not robes and pointy hats.