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Originally Posted by bad jane
what? first, comparing an illegal activity to an legal one is hardly fair. murder isn't just morally wrong--it's illegal.
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Actually it should not be any different when your talking about morality. Why is it illegal? Is it illegal for moral reasons? Why is it illegal to kill someone who we happens to live in the same country as us, but it's not to do so to someone who's following a leader that we do not approve of? That's a whole different argument altogether, and please let's not discuss war, but only use as an example of how arbitrary legality is.
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some people find eating meat morally wrong, but it is a legal activity for those that wish to do it. beating someone to death with their shoes is no more right or wrong than shooting them with a gun or stabbing them to death with a pencil--dead is dead and murder is against the law.
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How about shoving scissors into their heads, opening them up, and inserting a vacuum? Morals should have nothing to do with legality. Not to compare the two, but I used slavery as an example that was legal and immoral in certain people's eyes earlier. Where do you draw the line?
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and what is wrong with saying something goes against your personal beliefs but you respect the right of others to make their own choices based on their morals and religious beliefs? it's a cop out to respect other people and their beliefs? 
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I see it as a cop out when the morally wrong thing negatively impacts the life of a human being. Disregard first trimester abortions, that's a grey area. Disregard non-viable in the scientific sense of not being able to possibly live outside the mother's body (we have rather good incubators right now, so this is a smaller grouping that it once was). This is talking about directly impacting the life of a potential human being (I only use potential here to avoid an useless argument about where life starts) very negatively.
I will not hold it against people who have them now, I will not hold it against people that believe that it's right, but that doesn't mean that I can't get my jollies arguing over it in an anonymous forum, or that I won't try whatever way I can to fix what I see as a tragic loss of human life.
If you do not believe abortion is negatively affecting someone's life, then why do you see it as immoral? That is where I am confused.