text: You  completely misread me, EFC.  I said "WE have no right to impose our morality on others." The "we" here is the Roman Catholic Church, where "Church" is understood in the V2 sense of the community of all the faithful (bishops, clergy, laity, theologians). My comment is a contribution to an internal discussion among Catholics about what position OUR OWN MORALITY OBLIGES us, qua Catholics,  to take in the wider forum of political debate about abortion in democratic societies. 
  
  You are making an entirely different case. You are arguing that democratic countries have a right to make laws, and in so far as laws prescribe and/or prohibit ACTIONS, and morality is about good versus bad action, then it is obvious governments are involved in the morality game.
  
  The question that concerns me is What ought the law to be on an issue about which citizens of goodwill have fundamentally opposed moral views? Abortion is a perfect example.
  
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