I'm not deluded. At least I don't think I am. I agree with everything you said about abortion. The difference between you and me, I think, is that I don't connect the dots between someone believing something I don't and thinking they are causing the deathly serious affects that you laid out easily. I don't know what else to say except that sometimes a convention is just a convention. The way to go about changing people's views for the betterment of society is not by demonizing the one's who get it wrong.
"The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."