He was actually proud of his decision to abort the baby. In some bazaar way, he thought he was doing the baby a favor by killing it. His whole attitude turned my stomach, but I knew he was blind. He really couldn't see his pathetic condition. He needed a miracle.
Pride can make a murderer actually feel good about their wickedness.
Self-righteousness is pride's bedfellow. To me, self-righteousness is a righteousness a religious person feels based on their own works and their own standards as opposed to the grace of our Father and His standards. I say the two are bedfellows because I have noticed that military leaders always use pride to pump up the soldiers. The self-righteous religious leaders of the past often used the military to do its dirty work. One party, the religious would make the moral decree that this war is a just cause which would give the army, built on pride, the moral right to kill in the name of God.