I have read your FR home page and agree with a whole lot of it...but have a real problem with this statement...
I'm pro-choice as a last resort and oppose late term abortions.
What does a last resort mean?
I am absolutely anti-abortion and pro-life. If the absolute LIFE of the mother is imperiled than I think that the mother and father and doctor have a discussion with one another and with God and make the decision...but this is the ONLY case where I personally can see any moral excuse for taking the life of a child, if it absolutrely a physical certainty that a birth, C-Section or otherwise, will kill the mother.
I just have a hard time squaring your statement which implies pro-choice on abortion outside of late-term, with your strong statments regarding violence to children.
Abortion is the ultimate violence to the most innocent and youngest children in our midst. Your statemnent sounds for all the world like you are being political about this most basic moral issue and trying to appeal to both sides. I cannot countenance such a position and please explain to me that it is not the case.
As a father of five children...I can say in each instance that the child is alive in the wound and at a very early stage recognizes its surrounding and respondes to the loving touches and sounds of its parents.
I believe that a late term abortion is wrong because the fetus has developed. It's not really substantially developed early on.
Also, a woman should really think it over before getting an abortion. She wouldn't want to regret it later.