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There aren't easy answers. But there are right, and wrong, answers.

Based upon those answers -- or decisions, if you will -- there are consequences. We can't repeal those consequences -- and in some cases, we can't undo them.

Do I feel sympathy for the woman? Yeah. Do I acknowlege that she was in a rough spot? Yeah. Was she right in aborting the child?

Aye, there's the rub, now isn't it?

All the depths of sympathy, all the cascades of forgiveness, cannot change the simple fact that there is black, there is white; there is death, there is child.

"I have been that woman. I have been dead and unable to care. And now -- on the other side of apathy, on the other side of death -- I have learned what it means to be truly alive."

Somebody didn't learn that on the other side. A little child.

One parent's cruelty to a child... is it ever excusable? Does it justify itself in propegation? Are we supposed to hate the cruel father, but feel nothing but sympathy for the abortive mother?

Who's accepting the easy answers, praytell?