Abortion is a perennial dilemma that will never be resolved to everyone’s satisfaction, for it is a clash between two deeply felt humanistic values that most of us hold sacred: (1) the sacramental (hence non-negotiable) value of all human life, and (2) our personal freedom and autonomy, especially for women, over our own bodies and our choice of whether or not we are ready to bear and raise a child.
If I were a woman, I would not ever have an abortion, but I have no right to impose my choice on anyone else.

Many women are so stressed financially and otherwise that they cannot afford a child. Others have medical conditions that would endanger their lives if they brought a child to term. Such difficult decisions are private, not public, and thus should be left up to each woman, her spouse, and their physician.

And then there’s the “elephant in the room:” the carrying capacity of our overstressed, overheated planet. If every pregnancy were to result in a new mouth to feed, our global population would skyrocket and then collapse into mass starvation! In a crowded world, I would much prefer to see 100 unborn children aborted than see one growing child starve to death!