You must be joking!  The reason I didn't bring up abortion is that it's obvious to all what the Church teaches on the subject!  Further, in my very first post in this discussion, I stated, quote: "Being pro-life is an orientation to life and involves a determination to uphold the sanctity of life wherever and whenever one can."  How you can interpret that as somehow ignoring or condoning abortion is beyond comprehension.  Abortion in no way upholds the sanctity of life.  You didn't read what I actually said.  Similarly, just as abortion is an attack on life, so too is stripping the poor of health care, making life harder for children, taking from the poor to fund tax cuts for the rich, and a host of other activities.  It seems that you want to make be pro-life on the abortion issues, but anti-life on other issues.  You're either pro-life on every issue, or a hypocrite.  The current administration has opted for the latter, but I hope you opt for the former.