Your post wasn't fuzzy, it was sincere and completely understandable.
I do understand why you would feel that way, but do not agree to the solution of abortion. It's hard to hear those stories where children are unwanted and abused, but abortion was available to your mother and she didn't choose it. All of the young children you hear about being abused now, their mothers could have had abortions. They didn't. So obviously having that option made no difference.
Stopping the murder of the unborn does make a difference for the children who are already here. It's promoting the sanctity of life, raising awareness of how valuable life itself is, and that causing harm to a life is wrong. We are trying to make people realize that all life is valuable and precious, no matter what the age of the child.
In our human minds, we judge whether a child would be better off dead or alive. In cases of abuse, it's easier to say dead because seeing a child suffer is horrible.
BUT, that decision is not ours. When we see a child outside the womb being abused, we do not kill them so that they will be better off. We help them. When we see an unborn child in danger of being harmed, we help them.
True, the focus you've seen on this forum is toward the unborn. It happenes to be what the Lord has laid on my heart to stand against the most. There are a number of other issues I have strong feelings about, but for me this is the one that it seems I have the best opportunity to deal with. Also, the majority of people already realize that abusing and harming born children is horrible, they realize that hunger is a problem, that violence is a bad thing. The majority of people don't realize that abortion kills a child though.
There's also a lot more to the abortion issue than a lot of people understand. It includes setting up centers to counsel people, sex education, promoting chastity, raising money to help them care for their baby should they decide against abortion, providing information on adoption for those who decide they truly can't care for the child, referring people to agencies that provide parenting skills help, etc. etc..
It all works together to help set up an environment where the child will be loved, wanted, and cared for after a decision against abortion is made.
More later, my daughter has an appointment I gotta get too!
But thanks for posting your thoughts, you brought up some interesting points.
Chrys