I think that until the Church admits that what John and Edna say is true, the credibility of the Church's teaching on abortion suffers because it is seen (by expert Catholics who actually do the loving) as part of an  anti-sex agenda. 

And we must stop using "abortion and contraception" as a collective noun.

 Discerning, loving Catholic men and women KNOW to their very core that the perverted--right word--view of Augustinian thinking is, how should I say it, WRONG. Yet that view permeates Church teaching, discerned wisdom of laity lovers to the contrary. 

To dismiss and to  mock the learned  wisdom of Catholic couples is to (sinfully?) assert a myth that those  lovers who "know" have less prayerful insight than those who do not. 

Until the Church says "We are called to  trust prayerful and conscience-formed couples to make decisions about how to fully love each other, responsibly guided by their ROLES as faithful lovers more so than by unaccepted-by-conscience RULES".......