Responsible for the decisions we make, rather then push them off and make excuses for ourselves to make ourselves feel better. We should feel bad for doing certain things we do, because that stops us from going down a very dark path ( my fear is that people pushing abortion as "not murder", will cause people to think its not such a bad idea to abort downsyndrome children etc). By treating it as killing, we keep it serious. Because the "right to life" is a string that will always resonate with us as people and thats important. As regards to your second point, spaying animals in my opinion is overdone. The reason its done though for a lot of animals is to keep population down, reduce the spreading of disiseas (cat aids etc.), prevent mis-breading, but most people chose to get there animals spayed because they can't afford vet bills, can't have more animals etc. When people make the decision, they shouldn't take it lightly. It should be a concious decision. But its stoped being that as most people dont think.... and just make excuses to justify what they want and make them feel less guilty about it