Steve, you continue to insist moral principles must be dumbed down and stated in absolutes. I have a suspicion that you want them that way so you can refute them. The "objective evil" definition is a fairly clear and simple way of stating the Catholic opposition to abortion, whether or not you like that way of stating the principle. The "lesser of two evils" process is also quite simple and clear, as is the principle of primacy of conscience. When I was in school, we understood these things quite well in third grade, at the age of nine. It doesn't take a seminary education to understand. It's just basic decision making. The rule is more-or-less absolute, but the application depends on a wide variety of variables. That's how it is in real life.
And not that final principle - the individual's conscience is the final decider. So, if a woman firmly believes that abortion is the best thing she can do considering the circumstances, that getting an abortion is a morally correct decision for her.

But to make a correct moral decision, a person must be brutally honest in self-examination. You can't rationalize or play legalistic games.

You may not like this systematic method of making a moral decision, but nobody's forcing it on you. You can take it or leave it. It works for me - it's a simple, rational process that forces me to examine my reasons for doing things. And the final arbiter is not the Church, not the law, but the individual who is making the decision.

And it has been official Catholic teaching for a long, long time.

-Joe Offer-