I respect that someone may have a clear view of personhood based on their faith, but don't believe it can or should be legislated from there. There are other beliefs and faiths, even some without proper names. I also understand how it must pain people who find a great source of happiness in their faith that they can't do what they must feel is a great good for others. But even conveying particular tenets of faith into laws will not convey that gift. I think the idea in the Christian faith was that Christ left a gift, or burden, of freedom of belief, and that seems to me, at least, to accord pretty well with some ideas in U.S. goverment, much as it may pain some of us sometimes.

There seem to me to be strong currents of sexism in many, or the most strident anti-abortion views--I'm not saying all--and here and now I have great distrust of the current political agenda, and how it is expressed. This sexism implies that a woman's life is a little less than fully human.

I have distrust on some other issues also, and keep feeling that the grander the reasons, the more there's something that's unspoken thrown into the bargain. Sometimes the smaller arguments are more convincing. There may be right and wrong things, but there are also right and wrong ways to do those things.

    Is it pro-life if I feel the thing to do is respect that women are living lives, and particularly human lives, which means making choices?