Hello Abaddon:
I do not attack the general character of women that have abortions. (Remember the "tongue in cheek" warning?) It would be irrational to do so as I've known a (sadly large) number of women who have had abortions and their reasons for doing so are quite varied. If there was one most common problem that these women had, it was a serious lack of self-esteem and assertiveness. The plurality of them had an abortion because their boyfriend or husband coerced them into doing so. Some had an abortion because their parents or their boyfriend's parents coerced them into doing so. A few had an abortion because the child they were carrying was not the offspring of their current boyfriend or husband and were in fear of being abandoned. I think that few, if any of the above cases would have resulted in abortion if the women involved were more willing to take a stand for themselves. It is hard to blame women in these cases when one is moved more towards pity.
There is much less sympathy available for women who abort because it was socially inconvenient to carry a child for a few months; here in the United States there are waiting lists, years in length, for couples waiting to adapt newborn children, so no mother is forced into childrearing.
And I have heard of a case when the woman aborted her child just to spite her boyfriend. No sympathy there.
Interestingly, I know of no woman personally that had an abortion due to fear of a lack of financial support.
Concerning the disconnection of life support on patients with no brain activity, there is no comparison with willful abortion. Unplugging support from a brain dead patient removes NO future living potential from that person while aborting a child removes ALL future living potential of that person. Sadly, I know of this quite well as that's what happened to my stepfather in June and to my sister in August. Removing medical intervention provides for a natural death in these cases; in abortion, it's the unnatural medical intervention that causes death.
I do not now why there are cases of failure of implantation or of spontaneous abortion. I do not know why children are sometimes born with life threatening conditions and will die in absence of (sometimes mild) medical intervention. But if natural pregnancy failure occurs and you take that to justice willful abortion, then to be consistent you must also hold that live births with life threatening conditions justifies infanticide.
As regards capital punishment, it should only be used as a last resort when there are absolutely no other alternatives such as life without parole imprisonment, and this is really just another name for death by incarceration.