I’m just in the process of preparing a talk I’ll be giving at Notre Dame University toward the end of the month.  I hold to a Consistent Life Ethic that sets me against poverty, pollution, abortion, euthanasia… and anything else that can end life prematurely.  Today I was writing a segment about abortion.  I noted that in the womb there are 10 fingers, 10 toes and a heartbeat.  Now it wouldn’t take, say, a top-flight physician at the Mayo Clinic to figure out that these are: THE HALLMARKS OF A HUMAN BEING!  Yet while the fact seems so basic, so simple, many in society have come up with a tremendously complex set of rationalizations (read: rational lies) to justify killing these little babies.  Note:  While in Mansfield, Ohio, to give a Pro-life talk, I noticed the following bumper sticker:  “Call me extreme, but I think dismembering babies in their mothers’ wombs is wrong.”