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Thank you so much for your thoughful post. I had hoped not to offend but to receive guidance, because this issue (although you're right, it's a very small percentage of abortions) is one that troubles me.

Just to make sure I understand, when you write while your mind deals with the realities of allowing some abortion because of the hardness of our collective hearts, you do mean in the short run, right? I guess one way to look at this is that in the long, we'd live in a society where it was so very clear that rape was not a stigma for the rape victim -- only for the rapist -- that women weren't traumatized so much by the idea of carrying their babies to term.

I also whole-heartedly agree with you that such issues, which I find hard, have to be placed in the greater context: most unwanted pregnancies are not of this sort and abortion-on-demand probably just decreases the level of care and preparation people take generally with their pregnancies (e.g., getting married). And that also affects the early child welfare of the infants that are born. It's very very disputable that the pro-abortion people are right to suggest that abortion-on-demand maximizes the welfare in even the short run of children that are born. Abortion-on-demand discourages marriage, and the institution of marriage has a most salutorious effect on the early years.

Thanks very much for your post. I plan to read it repeatedly today.

You truly get it, Lady. I believe our society will be so much greater, so much more blessed, and so much more successful in this world when we go the extra step to affirm life, all life, as too valuable to terminate for whimsical reasons. And yes, everything to be overcome to reach that goal is to be seens as 'in the short run' with affirmation of all conceived individual human life as the long range goal.