VP Harris to visit abortion clinic

If Biden is re-elected, it wouldn't surprise me one bit, to see him resign shortly after his inauguration, to allow Harris to become president.  I want to say he might wait two years and one day, to allow her potentially to be elected to two more complete terms, but I really, really have to doubt that the American people (or at least an electoral majority) would be so crazy about her, that they'd elect her in her own right once, let alone twice.  Bill Clinton or Barack Obama she ain't.  Either of those men could run for president tomorrow, if they were allowed, and would be elected handily.  At least Clinton was willing to admit that abortion is undesirable and he hoped to make it, as he put it, "safe (at least for the mother), legal, and rare".  Far less bad than what we have now in the pro-choice states.

There is, indeed, a lot of work left to be done.  Abortion has been sharply curtailed in a wide swath of Southern states (where so many people want to live anyway, my smallish city is bursting at the seams, you could belch into a paper bag --- be glad I said "belch"! --- and get a job paying $20K a year, nobody's moving to Rochester, Hartford, or South Bend, let's put it that way), but at the end of the day, when you get below about six weeks, it becomes a theological issue, a fortiori for laws guarding life from the moment of conception.  After all, carrying that to its logical conclusion, and you have to rule out some methods of contraception (a misnomer in this case, the conception has already happened), and the present American way of life requires that women be able to turn their childbearing ability on and off at will.  With NFP, the couple always has to be ready for the off chance that conception could occur at any time, despite their best efforts  God's Will is ultimately the determining factor.  If your health or even lifestyle absolutely, positively demands that a couple be child-free, and abortion is not an option, then the only totally safe option is abstinence, and few couples are up for that. 

And as to the protest sometimes levied that "Humanae vitae isn't that big of a deal", go to a couple contemplating marriage, say "you will only be able to use NFP, with abstinence that may be a substantial part of the month, no matter what, no matter if you try to use it and can't make it work", and see what they tell you.  Gravely immoral matter, done with sufficient reflection (you can't say you don't know what the Church teaches) and full consent of the will (aside from the gross practice of coitus interruptus in a moment of panic --- which, not incidentally, robs the wife of the full pleasure of the act --- contraception isn't the kind of sin you can commit on the spur of the moment in a fit of passion), we all know what that means.  Yet this is rarely mentioned from the pulpit, and probably not in the confessional either.  That needs to change.