Precisely so.
Matthew is correct that abortion per se is never justifiable, but there are circuмstances in which life saving procedures are justifiable even if the baby would die.
Yes, though I didn't go into that in my post for the sake of brevity and focus.
You just can't directly kill the baby as your primary end. The baby might die because of some necessary life-saving procedure, but that is a different story.
Like Mark mentioned, a Catholic must be guided by truth and Catholic teaching. He must also make sure to conditionally baptize the baby as soon as possible in such cases.
But this "life of the mother" argument is so worn out. The reality is that 99.9% of abortions are not done for this reason. Most are because a baby would "crimp my style", "cost money", "tie me down", "destroy my career", "make me suffer", "I'm not ready for a baby", "my birth control failed", etc.
That's the hard REALITY of abortion.
Also, abortion is extremely violent for the baby, and causes permanent (mental, psychological, emotional) damage to the mother of the baby if she has an ounce of femininity left in her. That is also the hard reality.
So put those two together -- that's the reality of abortion. Ripping live babies limb from limb and throwing them in the trash can, because this woman would prefer to "enjoy life" and check more items off her "bucket list", or compete with men better in her career.
Anything else is just so much chaff -- so much fluff -- to distract us from the reality.
It's the classic case of catching your priest watching a 1 hour history docuмentary (which was his only screen time that MONTH), so you go ahead and give yourself permission to spend 3 hours a day watching typical Hollywood trash (rated R) movies, modern TV shows, etc. In other words, "give an inch, they'll take a mile". It's classic human behavior.