text: 1. I never assumed that "no one" has truly grapples with the Church's position.  I do maintain there are many who are disdainful toward the Church's reasonable teaching that human life worthy of protection begins at conception.  
  
  2. I don't really doubt the Church's ability to heal.  What I really doubt is the ability of many of the Church's antagonists to accept the Church's good medicine.  
  
  3. You say, "As a woman in the Catholic Church I'm fully aware the church places greater value on a fetus than on a woman."  You can't be "fully aware" of a Church teaching that doesn't exist.  Where has the Church has ever said such a thing?  I just see more hyperventilation here,
  
  4. You say abortion is "morally fraught," but it is a serious moral problem because life begins at conception.  If it's less than that, no moral problem.  But you say it can be done "only as a last resort."  Would you say that regarding the life of a newborn?  Of course not. Why should such a procedure be made safe?