Protecting the poor.  Banning abortion at the same time.  As if these two are not intrinsically entwined. May I suggest to the miter wearers that what they need to do is to lobby Congress strongly and persistently (like the widow tugging a scribe's sleeve in Jesus' parable) so as to achieve the social justice which no longer forces women to be treated as second class citizens, as less than human, as breeding machines?  In other words: begin to treat women as fully equal in the church first, then in America, making sure they have the full freedom to take the measures necessary to secure their health.  In other words again: the good Jesuit practice of looking at each individual situation carefully and compassionately, and working against any circumstance that may force a woman to terminate her pregnancy, and undertake everything to guarantee a life in dignity. Bishops, be wound dressers first, and all the rest will fall in place.  You keep barking up against the wrong tree, as always.