I appreciate your editorial and will try to word this response carefully.  I fully appreciate and have lived by my church's teaching on the sanctity of life, including abortion.  Yet living in a nation with families of many faiths and no faiths, I have come to appreciate the Roe v. Wade decision giving all families the opportunity to make their own moral decisions within whatever framework guides them.

As I have taken offense at Republican efforts enforce a certain set of beliefs as dogma for the entire nation, I take the same offense at the Democratic party doing likewise. 

We may be a nation divided in some ways, but we must never allow politicians to allow our love of God to tear us apart.  I seem to remember a line about "They will know us by our love...."