I find it amusing when someone feels that a pro-life approach is necessarily one rooted in the Judeo-Christian paradigm. God has no place in the discussion of abortion matters if one doesn't want Him to.

I find it also amusing when someone feels a comment like "whether life and human rights began at conception was "above his pay grade" is a pragmatic one. You do NOT want to leave this up to doctors. If it were, no abortions would be allowed, since life does indeed begin at conception. We have every biological ingedient needed to be human at conception, and I want to see the scientific study or documentation that life does not start at conception. Hint: they don't start 'The Miracle of Life' at the newborn stage.

"Arguments, education, contraception, easy adoption, and increased economic opportunity for young women" does not make the act of abortion any more right. If Republicans summarily made some unprecedented effort in all of these facets, your stance on abortion would not budge, ergo, there is no compromise, unless your definition of "compromise" is simply getting what you want while setting a social agenda how you want.