Abortion, whether one thinks it is right or wrong, has always occurred and always will occur. It is not going away. If returned to back alley clinics, women are going to die, children are going to be orphaned, men are going to be single parents, and angry youth are going to roam the streets.

The truth is that if the anti-abortion message was effective from the pulpit, then all the court cases and laws would not matter because women would not opt for an abortion anyway. But the pulpit message has not been heeded and it is wrong to ask the government to require of women what their religion could not morally convince them to do. That is a theocracy. And a theocracy is what the original European settlers to this nation were escaping.