text: I agree, utilitas, that the pro-life side cannot (and, I think, must not) win and I also agree that we need pro-life push to force us to draw lines around abortion.  We need to work on making planned pregnancies normative - doesn't sound very Catholic, I know, but it recognizes that women who work and have families need to have better control over when and how many children they have.   
  
  The wider availability of effective contraceptives is most important to what has driven down the number of abortions, but so has better sex education.  Planned Parenthood is very important to those efforts and I want government funding to them to continue.
  
  State legislatures have been "drawing lines" around abortion, with the 20 week limits.  They screw up with "bodily probes" and artificial restrictions on doctors, required waiting periods - obvious, stupid, wasteful.  I don't want abortions driven into the back-alleys and wire coathangers.  So we need to reduce it but keep it legal.