Concerning that anarchist friend of mine

Which raises an interesting question as to how far we can go in separating the legal and the moral questions when it comes to abortion. Is it inconsistent to oppose abortion morally but not legally? The tricky part is that if you consider abortion to be the taking the life of a person, and you think it unjustified, you've got some actions that fall with the class of murders (which by definition is the morally unjustified taking of human life) which you think should nevertheless not be legislated against. That does seem initially counterintuitive, but is there solid ethical reasoning backing up this intuition?

Anarchy, State, and Abortion

I had a friend once who was an atheist, an anarchist, and thought abortion was murder. Obviously he's a counter-example to the claim that pro-lifers want to impose their religious views on the public. But, of course, he would have to be opposed to laws against abortion, since, of course, he was opposed to, well, laws, being an anarchist