I could not get back to you sooner Tom.  However, you are completely contradictory.  If any woman could, in your opinion, make a great priest then you are speaking against the Mother Church's teachings and are, in your own description teaching heterodoxy.  I am against abortion.  However as you have said, politics and religion should not be treated as the same & since illegalizing abortion leads to more abortions happening, as a Catholics and a Christian, I am against this form of punishment regarding this form of immorality.  I have no problem with my conscience on this as the facts globally agree with my statement and Catholicism's teachings against abortion are claimed to exist by our hierarchy for the purpose of stopping abortion not increasing it in the world.  So if people who make reasonable decisions based on facts instead of only on the church's flawed, even for its own claimed pretenses, rules then all you really want is a yes priest or a robot rules follower with no brains.