ABORTION AS A ‘CHEAP GRACE’ FLASHPOINT

I am pro-life. I am also pro-choice.
I am in favor of women in crisis pregnancies being enabled to carry their babies to term and then helped to get back securely on their feet, whether they keep the child or give it to be adopted. I ‘m pretty sure such help consistently available will encourage progressively more women to choose life. That is where I think the movement’s main focus ought to be.
I also hold already-breathing lives to be at least as important and as sacred as those not yet breathing. This includes those with darker skins than me, LBGTQs, and condemned criminals.
I also know Biblical tradition holds that life begins with breath, which in Hebrew is the same word as ‘spirit’. I am also willing to pay any additional taxes that might be levied to pay for such help when offered by federal and/or state governments.
I think a question that should be asked is, does a woman pregnant as a result of rape compound the violence done her by aborting her child? I don’t claim to have or know the answer. I only think that the question deserves asking and civil, and cogent, discussion.
I’m married to someone I call a genuine ‘pro-lifer’. She takes the late Cardinal Bernardin’s ‘seamless garment’ articulation about the sacredness of life very seriously indeed. I’m not sure I do, but I respect such a stance. I cannot say the same about most others who call themselves ‘pro-life’. I call such hypocrites pro-birth Pilates. The minute the child breathes, they take water and wash their hands, although not usually before a multitude. Then they’re gone.
I imagine such bipeds…