Click here to read her Newsweek column “Life Begins at Conversation,” where she tackles the abortion debate intelligently and tactfully.

People will keep on reducing this discussion as best they can: God and freedom, rights and wrongs. But this will never be an easy issue to parse. It can’t be; instead of fitting neatly into black-and-white boxes, it takes place in that messy gray zone of hard choices informed by individual circumstances and conscience.