From a reader:

If you want to call it a moral decision (I would call it a decision
of personal conscience, or something less cumbersom) then you have to
admit that there are degrees of import in morality. THe question of
wheather or not to excecute someone is of greater import than the
question of whether or not to shoplift a bag of chips. Yet they are
both moral questions.
Where do I think abortion (in the first trimester) fits in? Somewhere
between the bag of chips and excecution. That is because of the
developing qualities of the developing embryo. Then you add to that
the privacy concerns of the mother and it becomes a very cloudy moral
question. Your post implied that all moral questions are easy and
clearcut, and maybe that all moral beliefes are equal.

Me: I pretty much agree entirely with this reader, except on his inference about what I was implying. Many moral questions are in fact very hard and I grant entirely that many pro-choice advocates wrestle in good faith on how we should deal with abortion. Hard choices are hard because they balance competing goods. Easy choices are easy because they don’t.