It will recognize our shared responsibility, in public and private settings, to make realistic alternatives to abortion available to such women. It will support women in caring for the children they choose to raise themselves, and it will help them find homes for those they cannot raise. It will work to provide a decent life for mother and child before and after birth. What we seek are communities and policies that help women to deal with crisis pregnancies by eliminating the crisis, not the child. The rhetoric of abortion advocacy contains a truth that abortion advocates often fail to perceive.
Abortion is a question of choice.
It is a choice faced by all the citizens of this free society. If we abandon the principle of respect for human life by making the value of a life depend on whether someone else thinks that life is worthy or wanted, we will become one sort of people. But there is a better way. We can choose to reaffirm our respect for human life. We can choose to extend once again the mantle of protection to all members of the human family, including the unborn.