text: For your comment to be correct, several conditions need to be met. Making abortion illegal does not decrease the number of abortions. I am sure that as a percent of the population, abortion was higher in Victorian times than today. It is a huge leap of logic to make a voter supporting planned parenthood responsible for abortions- a decision made according individual consciousness. Only in Muslim fundamentalist states laws are dictated by religion and you can see the mess it is. A Catholic can and must separate his civid duty from his persoanal belief- real life situation and trade-offs are complex and require different skills. But most important is that the priest abused his power, in fact he is guilty of emotional abuse and  of misleading a devoted woman- he has no attribution to judge. Only God can. So let me repeat clearly and loud, his behavior is shamefull, and probably sinful.