That is the rub and you either face it or don't. If a 16 year old shoots somebody with a gun on impulse, they should get a stiffer sentence than somebody who after weeks of contemplation decides to abort their fetus, the impulse shooter should get more jail time?
I am not totally out of your camp btw. I hate abortion. I want such restrictions placed upon it, that it truly is the last and only resort.
I have a friend right now trying to adopt, and the home visits, paperwork, costs are just a mess. He has to wear a saint on his head, (which he nearly does anyways), just to be able to have half the rights that two teen-agers rutting in a car have and that is one factor as to why their are too many abortions.
I would be more than happy to ban abortion except in cases of rape or incest, with a streamlined adoption process that makes potential adoptive parents treated like criminals.
Until that point, we have the mess we are in. I curse the 60's for ever happening. I find it highly offensive that people think that they can just snuff out their progeny as easy as getting a wart removed.
Yet, I still don't think abortion is murder in the same regard as taking a gun, knife, or fists and killing somebody who was already born.
I am a bit sick of the crappy rhetoric from both sides. The Orwellian double speak such as "choice".(Does that mean the choice to procreate like a dog in heat, fail to use birth control, and dump your fetus in the trash like yesterday's refuse? Unborn baby is the equivalent of calling the living Undead corpses if you follow that logic.
We are in a mess in this country and there are no easy answers. Most people realize it. There is a crisis in morality, and you can try to legislate it, but good luck.
end of rant.