Folks this is easy. If you are pro-life, then you should be liberal for a simple reason: law does not dictate behavior, common sense does. Your morality is attached to the behavior aspect of abortion, not the legal aspect, (ie, the act of aborting a life is wrong).

We have had drug laws in this country for about 100 years but anyone who has been to high school knows that the law does not stop people from using drugs. Prostitution has been shunned for hundreds of years, yet finding a prostitute is as easy as going to the phonebook or looking in the weekend guide. No, I am not Bill O'Lufa. I don't look, but that is kind of the point. You don't even have to want one in order to know where to find one. Hell, all of Texas still speeds on the highway even though it is against the law. Abortion is the same way: blanket mandates will not decrease abortions and never have.

This column presents a great way to frame this debate for liberals.

Step one: admit that in most situations, you oppose abortion just like most people. You think it is wrong.

Step two: argue that mandates don't dictate behavior. We all speed and take rolling stops.

Step three: abortions decrease with five very liberal policies: adequate health care, employment, education, access to contraception and sound sexual education, which is like a form of preventative medicine. And when they are allowed medical care prevents the deaths of mothers.

The point is this: most people are anti-abortion even if they are pro-choice. Unless you are liberal, however, you favor policies that directly cause more abortions and more deaths attempting them.

Therefore, if you believe abortions are morally unjustifiable then it is morally unjustifiable to be a conservative.