We weren’t talking about what liberals mean — we were talking about what Senator Paul said. You couldn’t be more wrong about the way you characterized that.
Your line of argumentation will only ensure that the pro-life side never makes any gains.
I'm not sure how you could justify that. My "line of argumentation" is based on attacking the enemy from a principled stand. If you stand and are backed up by your principles, then any answer you give to an assault would be based on those principles, which would be unassailable if you truly believed them.
When politicians argue from an unprincipled position, they are arguing to save their own hides and to make them seem "moderate." What we really need is someone who is willing to argue from their principles and remain stalwart in their defense of those principles. Principles are unassailable, and if Rand Paul is truly arguing from his principles, as you seem to infer he is, then he is not a conservative from a pro-life, Christian standpoint.