I'm a left winger, and I agreed with everything but this part:
While in university, she became pregnant. Contraception is an imperfect art. On moral grounds she decided not to kill it. (Actually it wasnt a decision. There are things one doesnt do and, in her view, that was one of them. Today The Unkilled is fourteen and prospering mightily.)
For a Catholic, contraception and premarital sex should be "things one doesn't do" also. I don't understand how people can be so proud of upholding one rule while the two they broke are what put them in that situation in the first place.