Chief, The issue here is the ending of a life. I will try to explain my position.
The unborn child has not interacted with society and therefore cannot have broken any laws. The murderer has interacted with society and HAS broken the law by killing someone (i.e. made a conscious choice to take the life of another). Society has deemed that breaking of this particular law will invoke the death penalty. So taking of the murderers life is, by societies rules, acceptable and necessary to good order. The child, for all intents and purposes, is innocent of any crime against society.
My problem is that society has said that it is ok for a mother to have an abortion. In my mind this is the same as the murderer, yet the mother will suffer no penalty from society. That is the double standard.
In a nutshell Chief, the murderer has made a choice, the child has not.