Actually, I did expect a bit of a caning, since both sides of the abortion issue are utterly polarized into diametrically opposed positions, and since both sides hold those positions with literal religious fervor.
You can be sure that the pro-abortion audience will react with every bit as much vitriol (more, actually) than some have expressed here.
As I see it, the abortion debate, after more than 20 years, is pretty much deadlocked. Right now, pro-lifers seem to be gaining a bit, but you can be sure those gains will be checked, or if not checked, then later reversed.
What I propose is that a genuine and lasting way forward exists.
Actually, where it has made progress is when both groups reach the conclusion that the best approach is to try and make abortion unneccesary and unneeded.
The mere existence of polarization does not mean that a compromise between the opposing parties is the right solution.
There was extreme polarization between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery sides in the 1800's.
Each side fervently used religion to back its argument.
The pro-slavery people did not have a basic right to keep their slaves.
The pro-abortion people do not have a "basic" right to kill an unborn child, either.
Allowing the abortion of an unborn child, below a certain developmental age, is age descrimination at its harshest.
It is similar to the age/size demarcation the Nazis had for deciding which concentration camp prisoners would be allowed to live, and which prisoners would be killed.
It would be like allowing slaves of certain sizes or ages to go free, and keeping the others enslaved.