The heheh was for pete's less than erudite contribution. As for moral issues that generally end up with people of good will making the same choice, it's rather unfortunate that you brought abortion into the frame. Catholicism, and it's not alone, is on extremely shaky ground here. The promotion of ignorance about sex, the pointless advocacy of abstinence, institutionalised misogyny and the ban on contraception go a huge way towards creating what you call the moral issue of abortion. And it strikes me that it's the very last thing that has attracted people of good will to find common ground, and anti-abortionists find considerable succour in the Church's illiberal stances on sexual matters. Fitting bedfellows indeed. Religion is crazily mixed up about all this and it's about time we made it take a back seat as any kind of moral arbiter. We'll find our own morality without you, thank you very much. You're just lousy at it.