I consider myself pro-choice and I think your position is awesome: you think that abortion should be safe, legal, and rare, because we are going to help women have children only when and if they want, and with lots of support. If all pro-lifers thought this way, we would not HAVE the debates about this problem and related ones that we do as a society; we would all be doing something productive about it together. The problem is all the pro-lifers who use "but what about the helpless unborn babies" as a pretext to shame and control women.

From what I've read Dr. Tiller was doing his best to save the lives of the mothers, cases where the baby was either hideously malformed or would kill the mother before or during birth, or both. So, to my mind, if you know you can't save the baby, but you can save the mother, you save the mother. At least that's one out of two still alive and healthy.