Many people consider human life to be sacred, and thus it is wrong to intentionally take the life of another. Preserving one's own life (self defense) is the only permissible exception to this rule.
Most people who oppose abortion do so because they believe a fetus is a human being and thus has a right to life. To be consistent in such a belief one must also consider those convicted of crimes to be human beings, and thus capital punishment should also be considered as morally wrong.
I will not argue as to just when a fetus becomes a human being. That would be the subject of an entirely different post.
Nor am I expressing my own personal beliefs here. I'm merely proposing an explanation in response to the OP's "pondering".
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