text: One can surely be pro life. You are not going to eliminate abortion.  The callous abortion of the uber-selfish will continue unabated.  These are the ones for which empathy is impossible. Those of the  the marginalized will return to the self-induced and the hatchet wielders. Satisfied? Yes, I suppose the uber-conservative Christians will be self-satisfied and move on to devote more energy to homophobia, misogyny and the wealth God wants for them.
  When a society helps to raise the poor, disenfranchised, marginalized to self-sufficiency; when they achieve a level where survival is no longer the issue they will be capable of giving moral choices the priority they merit and possibly with real compassion.