It's the ending of potential life. A lot more things can be wrong than just 'murder', you just need to refrain from thinking in black-and-white terms - if you can.
That's the kind of lying liberal double-talk that belongs at DU, not FR. I'm not surprised Romney attracts people like you.
LG, I think that I see where you are coming from--abortion creates the same kind of regret for "abortion-hater-but pro-choice" people that anyone would have for as-yet-childless newlyweds dying in a car wreck. The regret being that the newlyweds didn't get a chance to bring about further life.
I don't agree with this at all, having come to the conclusion that the unborn have inalienable rights because they are people. If I didn't believe that somebody's rights are violated in an abortion, I would want the government to stay out of it. That would be the conservative position, and I wouldn't "hate abortion" because of any potentiality.
Freegards
Dead wrong. Your statement is not based on science but on a justification. The science of reproduction makes it very clear that it is not "potential life" -- rather it is human life. Thus, abortion is the ending of human life which in terms of the great body of human law means that it is murder.
What you mislabel as "potential life" has from its conception a genetic structure as human as yours. It is human life at its inception. It is human life as it lives, subdividing, multiplying and organizing its cells and tissues. It continues as human life until natural death or until someone murders it.
The notion of potentiality as a category was a late 19th and a 20th century Eugenics category which the Nazis used in the most diabolical ways. The use of "potentiality" in the abortion debate by those who support it continues the same line of reason employed by the Nazis in exterminating the Gypsies, the Jews, and the disabled.
Your gray fuzzy world does not belong here.