No, that’s not what I’m doing. I specifically said that the life of unborn was not different in value, but only in the principle of potentiality. This is a real human life with the same value as an adult or that of a six year old, that must travel perilous months before birth. Care should be taken, though, so that we do not end up being one of those countries that prosecutes fetal demise or early miscarriage.
This is where the (evidently poorly chosen) agricultural analogy comes in; just as there are those who would say that a farmer should be paid a full price for grown hens for every ruined unhatched egg, when what the farmer is holding is truly a handful of ruined potential–well, suffice it to say I see a parallel there. An aborted baby is a baby. Beautiful, valuable, beloved of God. It is also a lifetime of potential, ruined and wasted. If thoughtless, with limited understanding, no less tragic, but certainly not the same as if done by willfully hardened hearts. There must be a penalty, yes, but the waste of two lifetimes? Where is the justice in that?