First of all, Professor Lola, we are not on homework assignment from you....
Secondly, I have heard what Obama has said about his views on abortion, I have seen his votes on the issue, I have seen McCain's version of his views and also seen Obama respond to the falseness of the claims from the right. So I don't need to read your opinion column to form my opinion for me.
Let me ask you a question Lola, have you ever heard of in vitro fertilization? I assume if you read the link yourself you have? You should know they start off with a bunch of embryos, then as time progresses they pick and choose which ones live and die. I happen to know some extremely right wing pro-life people that did this very thing and didn't have a problem with it at all. Here is a quote from YOUR ARTICLE that I "didn't read":

"For several years, Americans have been debating the use for biomedical research of embryos produced by in vitro fertilization (originally for reproductive purposes) but now left in a frozen condition in cryopreservation units."

Now, before you go on about me reading the NEXT paragraph, I DID, and I clicked the link provided there to give the information about Obama it is was a dead link, nadda. As I have no problem with abortion and scientific research I have no reason do research further....
Irie