I’m not the least surprised. I suspect that a lot of these people have been involved with the destruction of pre-born life. When you are, then your mind does what it can to rationalize what you’ve done. How else could you live with yourself? These people have their own private agendas, and most of them don’t even know it.
I think that is spot on. In the back of their mind they have an endless tape-loop constantly saying "I'm not going to hell! I'm not going to hell! I'm not! I'm not!"
You’re onto something that I figured out, as well.
The abortion (stem cell) issue is not about keeping future abortions legal. It’s about there being no moral weight assigned to the killing of the unborn, in order to assuage the guilt of those that have already been involved with abortion - either themselves, a girlfriend, or a daughter.
In order to keep the guilt weight off, they’ll do ANYTHING to justify the non-wrongness of what they did, especially encouraging others to commit the same sin in order for it to be more “normal”.
By the Grace of God, many repent and are converted. Others spiral down into greater evil.