snapits,
re: "You seem to take abortion very deeply and very personally."
Deeply, yes. But why would you say personally? Do you think abortion is an issue that doesn't warrant much attention except by people who take it personally? If so, then that's a huge flaw in your thought process.
Maybe it is religion that I take seriously. I know - that's anachronistic these days. People do their penance for an hour a week then blot the miserable experience out of their memory for the remainder. But what if I'm different? What if I'm *NOT* like so many others (clo, who doesn't believe but is honest about it, or OCU, who too does not believe, but donates enormous amounts of time, money and energy to church in the hope of concealing his shame from his family and himself, etc.)
Would encountering someone who actually lives his religion be so odd? Yes, actually, based on my own experiences. Short of travelling to the Middle East, maybe it would.
In any event, I prefer to just leave you thinking that I *do* take the subject seriously, and leave my motivations out of it.
re: "I think it is worse to..."
When, some day, someone uses similar reasoning to defend the abortion of your niece (And not the bratty one, either. The one you like. The one who rubs the ointment onto your foot, where the bunion is.), will you be okay with her being ripped apart and thrown out with the trash? Or, suppose you've had a stroke and cannot speak. Or you're in a wheelchair and can't very well prevent me from knocking you into a swimming pool. I'll only have your own interests at heart, I promise. I won't do it at all unless I think you'll be better off...
The truth is, snapits, that I've never met a person who regretted his mother's decision not to abort him. Not even once. Mebbe you have? 
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