They too are endowed by God with certain, unalienable rights

So why are Americans so slow to admit the obvious? Shift in Views on Abortion Seen in UK:

"With a new poll showing that a growing proportion of British women now oppose late-term abortions, pro-life leaders have called upon the government to rethink its position on the matter.

British law generally allows abortions up to the 24th week of pregnancy. Forty-seven percent of respondents in a MORI poll said they favored rolling the limit back, while 31 percent approved of the current time period.

Ten percent said they wanted to ban abortion outright, and two percent said they wanted abortions beyond the 24th week. The remainder declined to answer.

The release of the survey prompted Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, to urge the government to hold an inquiry into changing the law.

Along with the Pro-Life Alliance, he argued that since advances in ultrasound techniques had shown more clearly the human characteristics and behavior of 23-week-old babies in the womb, there had been a fundamental shift in public opinion."