Abortion

The following is a summary of what Kathleen Parker wrote in Townhall.com today:

Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the U.S. has afforded the American media and others an opportunity to remind us that the Catholic Church is "out of step" with modern times. The central life issue is, of course, abortion, about which even a majority of American Catholics (58 percent) differ from the church's view. The Catholic Church persists in opposing abortion, insisting that life begins at conception, all life has value, no human being has the right to terminate the life of another. Case closed.

Pro-choice arguments are, nonetheless, compelling. Privacy from government intrusion, yes. Women's autonomy over their own bodies, yes. All children wanted, well, of course. But none of those testaments to logic alters the essential truth that life begins when egg and sperm commingle and that every one of us was at that far end of the life continuum before we were able to dabble in ethics and trifle with electronic keyboards.

The question is how we reconcile what is true with what is merely convenient?