I'm unashamed to say that allowing (even hypothetically) 6, innocent, conscious human beings to die for the sake of an _idea_ (that is, that a fetus is equivalent to a born human child) is gross. Allowing ideas to dismiss one's obligation to respect individuals' humanity and to life is indefensible; and any view that equivocates such a nascent fetal life to that of a born human is indisputably and fundamentally a philosophical, if not religious, proposition. Using such a proposition to excuse death is anathema to civilized society and everything humanity has painfully learned in the past two centuries.

The same logic that permits one to claim a fetal life is equivalent to a born human (or, especially, a conscious human) is the same logic that permits one to claim that Jews are subhuman. Both cases discard the necessity for any objective standard (whatever that standard is, and whether it's definite and knowable in all cases).

In as much as I impugned the poster's personal character, I apologize. I'll leave my posting unedited as it's a fair criticism, and editing it would be self-serving. I endeavour to criticize specific behavior and opinions, not individuals. My post was sloppy and wrong in that regard.