The argument made by the pro-life camp is that it isn't a right. In the pro-life worldview murder is not a right, therefore abortion is not a right. In the pro-choice worldview, abortion is not murder and therefore it is the reproductive right of women to exercise that option at their discretion.
If you do not understand your opponent, there can be no meeting of the minds and thus no meaningful discussion. The true debate to be had about abortion, and the only meaningful discussion possible, is the debate over when does life and its associated rights begin. If you believe that it begins at conception then the answer is self evident in any reasonable moral system - you must not take a life without just cause. If you believe that it begins at birth then the answer is self evident again - the rights of a woman over her own body are paramount. If you take a middle stance (say, capable of living outside of the womb or similar) then you necessarily oppose abortions after that specified cutoff point.
"If a sound wave has energy, and an equivalent wave 180 degrees out of phase also has energy, and when you combine the two you get no sound, where does the energy go?" Obviously the energy for both waves goes to regions where the two waves don't cancel.
No, no you're thinking about this wrong. It the same basic principle as what happens when two people push against each other with equal force - they both go nowhere. The energy involved in sound wave is very very low and essentially you're pushing down on the carrier medium (air molecules) at the same but directionally opposite pressure as the original sound wave. Now for high energy applications this can lead to highly interesting and destructive results (think head on car crashes, football linebackers smashing each other), but for audio cancellation it's negligible in effect. But you're right in the sense that the energy is not created or destroyed.
Now in this specific case it sounds like they're going more for a damper than an actual cancellation device (which would require ungodly amounts of energy to have an impact). That's seems a little more reasonable and potentially doable.
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs