[Adapted from a personal letter, which I wrote to a fellow pro-life Catholic (and long-time friend).]

This will probably be a difficult read.

I had hoped I could write this all out for you easily in a few days, but this has proven difficult. I find that I am literally writing a short book, because after a lifetime in the pro-life movement, I am bewildered and heartbroken.

There is so much I want to try to explain.

Here is the best I can do for now.

For me, abortion is personal

I am never going to stop working to save children from abortion. It’s personal. My parents weren’t married when my 28-year-old father got my mother pregnant at age 19. They seriously considered aborting me. …