I have to agree with those I seldom do. The example does not fit the issue. However the issue needs to be explored. I guess Mr Briggs that you are one unwitting example of why the "willing to be ambiguous to do the right thing" failed to avoid Trump. 
The sentence that refers to the signs at the Catholic Church tells the story of the simplistic logic the Church promoted and resulted in "our" electing the antithesis of "right to life".
I grew-up with a Down Syndrome sibling who would likely have been the subject of an abortion in so many family situations. In a similar situation I would counsel my child to keep rather than abort; I would offer to take and raise, but in the end the decision would be her's. 
"Protecting the life of the unborn" is a ruse when, as you describe the conditions for raising persons' capacity to consider and keep a child, or to avoid pregnancy is rejected. Working towards the conditions for good will and the good is the way; not unreliable promise to legislate.