Yes, I believe abortion is murder. No, I don’t want it covered by my insurance or tax dollars. However, I make exceptions in cases of rape, incest and the extremely rare case of a threat to the life of the expectant mother - with the caviat that every effort must be made to avoid those abortions, too (adoption by parents who really want a baby, for instance.)

Does that make me an “extreme rightist”? If that is the case, you label the majority of those on the right as “extreme”!

I know stopping abortion will take the Supreme Court, and at the risk of beating a dead horse, put abortion to the “Society Test”: If all of society did “it”, would society be better off?

Abortion: no, because humankind would die off at the end of the generation (zero babies born). Murder: no, because humankind would die off at the end of this generation. So what’s the difference?

I don’t expect to get the extreme leftists who say, abortion should be in the basic benefit period as a matter of principle (even if the Shupak rider would cost less), or the extreme rightists who don’t want it covered at all, even in a rider.