While you're in a room, investigating a certain type of case, with (for example) a person, or persons, to each side of you, you could play the part of "Detective Sgt. Joe Friday" (of the original 'Dragnet' TV series fame), and ask "Ok, what's going on here? And please, just the facts."; Then one witness to one side of you could begin to describe exactly, but before that first witness could get beyond the first five words, some other would take offense at the first witness so matter-of-factly calling "a spade, a spade", and soon enough launch into attempts to eliminate the first as a factual witness, (including personal attacks, even name-calling, such as "Religious fanatic" [regardless of whether the first witness is, in fact "religious" or not], "Close-minded", "Void of 'Understanding' ", or even "NAZI [as if NAZI is a noun instead of an acronym]", "etc., etc., etc."; and then they would try to change the uncomfortable & inconveniently specific calling a spade "a spade", into a much more comfortable, convenient, and not so specific calling it an "agricultural implement".
Yes, there may be examples of "extremism" on both sides.
For example: On the one side, (among so many who hold both conceived & infant life so equally precious), there are a few who go too far and vandalize places where human life is not held so precious; And yes, of course swift & sure punishment should follow such cases of vandalims or arson.    
On the other side, there are many, (among the number favoring "termination on demand" [for anything in addition to a Direct And Immediate Threat To The Mother's Life, Inscest, and Rape]), who do anything from at least condoning, to demanding "termination on demand", including "Partial Birth Abortion"...the undebatable murder of well advanced, or fully formed human beings! 
Yes, the subject here is "abortion". 
HOWEVER!
Before anybody "cuts & runs" in either direction "for" or "against", be "Fair & Tolerant" enough to hear this out, then go as you please! 
Now...Do not mistake the following as advocating vandalism to, or arson of,  clinics, it is most certainly not!!  So, even with private property rights, and the swift & sure punishment which should follow vandalism to or arson of a building, which one is actually irreplaceable...such a building, which can be repaired or replaced, or a human life, which cannot be replaced?".  Again!...Do not mistake that as anything even remotely advocating vandalism to or arson of a building, because it is most certainly not!  What it is, is essentially to ensure clear & accurate perspective with regard to every body involved (and yes, I mean every...body). In other words:  "Which is irreplaceable:  Your mother, or a building (or car, for that matter)?; Your child, or a building (or car, for that matter)?  Again (Third time!)...This is not to be mistaken as anything even remotely advocating vandalism or arson of any clinic...it is most certainly not advocating any such thing! 
O.k, so there are people on the other side of the room, in this "investigation", those who "took offense" at the first witness "calling a spade, a spade", instead of "an agricultural implement"; or "a murder", "a murder", instead of something more comfortable & convenient, such as "an unquestionable right! to do so at will!"; i.e., those who demand, advocate, favor, or are at least amenable to Abortion On Demand " (For anything in addition to the causes described above).  Indeed, you hear them pose the question: "When is a human life, a human life?" In other words, they want to say "What Is/Is Not a Human Life".
Those who would pose "What Is/Is Not a Human Life", bait their hook likewise; and sure enough, too often those who hold both conceived & infant human lives equally precious , go for it, and are reeled into  debating "What Is/Is Not a Human Life"!
Well, here is something which should void that debate, or at least help those who will, leave such semantics to those so determined, like Crabs-In-A-Bucket, to drag everybody else down with them, into the Dark Side which is as follows: 
"That society found debating what is and is not a human life, will be found destroying it!"
So!...We're debating???