First, sorry for the length of my response...

Out front: I am a Bible Believing Born Again Christian, a 75-year-old Grandfather of 7 from four sons, and I also have one daughter who has a Masters in Occupational Therapy and of whom I am very proud, one of the most caring and generous persons I know.

So, there's that.

Yes, the issue of abortion is complicated, and the entrenched armies of vehemently impassioned opponents are only making solutions impossible, shrouding them in dust and dirt - the fog of war, as it were.

The Guttmacher Institute has an extensive analysis on why women choose abortion. However, let me try the impossible - to make my points simple.

In all of Mother Nature there are males and females.

Perhaps most of us city folk are too far removed from any familiarity with agricultural realities, but all flora and fauna use the powerful stimulus of sexual reproduction to make little floras and faunas. That's why the shelves are full.

Maybe parents have neglected to inform their children that the process of the birds and the bees also applies to all boys and girls.

Likewise, human fetuses are little humans, and they are produced by the same powerful sexual stimuli. So, those fetuses are not malignant tumors and our attitudes should reflect that. I don't know about everybody else, but all my daughters-in-law called them "babies."

If a boy and a girl have sexual relations, pregnancy is possible, if not probable, and that pregnancy ultimately becomes the girl's problem," not the boy's.

Now, simplified, the problematic reasons for choosing abortions could often be grouped together as an inconvenience - no matter how intensely inconvenient it is, and I say their grouping is arbitrary, ambiguous, and disputable, but mostly a waste of time.

Just the same, medically problematic pregnancies should strictly be a health care matter between the woman and her doctor. The only reason Uncle Sam should be involved is in providing complete health care for all women... pregnant or not.