I’m content with, or at least resigned to, copping out on the abortion issue.

In politics and theology I consider myself a “Christian progressive”, rejecting the notion you have to earn your way to heaven, principally by being lucky enough to be born into, and/or industrious enough to discover and clever enough to recognize, the one true religion.

I think if we need to be “saved from our sins”, a concept my inadequate brain has never fully grasped, such redemption was Christ’s gift to all, and not reserved for an elite minority.

I’m anti-war unless the very sovereignty of our nation and/or a NATO ally is legitimately threatened; against capital punishment and torture; for habeas corpus; wishy-washy on immigration (we’re all God’s children, is it their fault they were born on the wrong side of a border?); in favor of gay marriage, or at least a functional equivalent; for healthcare and other social programs that aid the least advantaged in our society; anxious about the damage we do to our environment…you get the idea.

Logically, shouldn’t I be pro-life?

Intuitively, abortion seems wrong.

But...