That's a very sane, balanced comment, in these crazy and alarming times - thank you for it. I don't think I could have managed to be so reasonable, or so charitable!

On the subject of being pro-life, I have been looking for, and failing to find, an interview with a nun who said that she did not think that people could really call themselves pro-life if all they were interested in was restricting abortion - in her view, to be truly pro-life, you had to be in both against abortion, and in favour of giving every child as full and worthwhile a life as possible; and you had to fight for both. Which is pretty much what you are saying above.