PMB, I also have trouble with this statement from you:
it's ironic that the religious conservatives who most vehemently oppose abortion are the same ones that deny treatment to children (and adults) after they are born
Now, if you could change that to some of the religious conservatives," I could agree with you completely. I think that in this discussion and in most of the discussions of life, it's important that we avoid absolutes and generalizations. Most people are not as stupid or as heartless or as unreasonable or as horrible as we generalize them to be.