text: "No, and abortion is not any other garden variety sin."  It has been almost treated as adultery was during in Christ's time.  The man was allowed to 'get away' and the woman was caught to be tried and stoned to death.  The pattern of sexism is blatant.  By the way, abortion was permitted in Judaism before 'quickening' occurred.
  
  
  "I would hope that a woman who procured an abortion would be remorseful and seek the godly counsel of a priest?  What does the priest even know about the psychological, mental and often physical situations that often leads a woman to procure an abortion? 
   
  
  Has the priest, personally, ever been in the same situation as the woman has?  You write about men confessing incest----but no special "juridical process" was needed to forgive that sin, either.  A man could sexually abuse a vey young child---little girl or boy.  But the priest didn't have to go to the bishop---to forgive the creep.