Jack, to compare abortion to capital punishment is specious. It's the anti-choice line of propaganda today.

Not as specious as you not reading what I was saying in context. I was responding to someone else bringing capital punishment into the conversation and I was ONLY talking about the relevance of of pain to the conversation.

I still do not believe that the amount of pain felt by any organism before death is relevant to the morality of whether or not to kill it.

Though I would say that mitigating and or minimizing the amount and duration of that pain would be a kindness. But even then, dead is dead.