here. A quick note to acknowledge the great questions and comments we received from some VFR readers in reaction to Debi Ghate's two posts on the issue of abortion. I wanted to highlight a couple of articles that offer further food for thought. My colleague Tom Bowden offers some observations here on issues relevant to the "personhood" question, and you may be interested in this editorial from Dr. Leonard Peikoff on the right to abortion. Personally, I have found the recent discussion about abortion to be much more disturbing than all of the back and forth about the economy and foreign policy. Setting aside the more absurd positions (pregnancies from rape are "something that God intended to happen"?), what we've heard in the past few weeks has been a debate about whether there should be exceptions to an outright ban on abortion (for rape, incest, etc.), whether one's Catholic dogma should influence one's legislative agenda, whether new Supreme Court appointees will affect Roe v. Wade and by how much, etc. Paul Mulshine, NJ Star-LedgerThere is a way to handle defeat gracefully.But Mitt Romney never does anything gracefully.That speech in which he blamed his loss on "gifts" Barack Obama gave to voters certainly had some truth to it. But&nbsp; that truth was better left uttered by others.For Romney to engage in excuse-making just makes him look like a sore loser. Byron York, ExaminerLAS VEGAS - With Mitt Romney's defeat and the loss of Republican seats in both House and Senate, the