It's not a one or the other, but a both/and argument. To seek illustrating a point on the basis there's just this one direction we can manage to protect Innocence, is a Clydesdale blind for view. If I understand, the Church is a magnificent creation, construct, and marvel on the face of the earth - magnanimous - that she can contend to defend, uphold, advocate for, and protect all life and human innocence at all stages of development from the point of conception to natural death. Pretty much fairer and better the truly "humane and compassionate" route to go, and do.