Warbler said:

walkingdork said:
But if the pregnant mother of my potential child was in mortal danger I'd want to have an abortion...and I would not consider it murder.

of course the life of the mother has to be considered. Even if I believe that the fetus is human life with the same rights as you or I, the mother has just as much right to live.

But a mother dying because of complications is more natural than abortion wouldn't you agree? So you would "murder" an unborn child to save a woman from a tragic but natural death?

And don't give me the "but a child cannot live without its mother" response that Darth_Ender likes to use. Nowadays a child absolutely CAN live without it's mother. If a child is born and the mother dies during labor the nurse doesn't just set the child on its mother's corpse and hope for the best. They find acceptable people to adopt and care for that child.