I didn't say it's justified. In fact, I called it "brutal and sickening", or words to that effect. What I said is that in most of the cases where people do late-term abortions, it's because there are serious fetal abnormalities and they don't want to carry the pregnancy to term. I feel a great deal of empathy for anyone in that position.
It's wrong 100% of the time, unless the mother will die because of it (which medically happens almost never).
I have no 'empathy' with people who decide that life will be too hard for them if they have to raise a handicapped child, so they say, "Go ahead, kill my baby. Suck his brains out. It's better than having to deal with him and mess up my schedule."
I'm not saying that I don't empathize with having to raise a child with 'abnormalities'..........but that is a far cry from empathizing with anyone who takes that child's life.
It is never, never, NEVER acceptable.