"In a thought-provoking article published Sunday on Salon, Frances Kissling, former President of Catholics for a Free Choice, asked: "If pro-choice advocates follow the example of those opposed to abortion and present only one value -- a women's right to make this decision -- as the only ethical consideration worth discussing in difficult cases, do we not become as extremist as we say they are? Is there not, in an ethical sense, an important weighing of women's rights and needs against a respect for life, even the life of nonpersons? Is there a point in pregnancy when our respect for life might outweigh a woman's right to make this choice?" The solidly pro-choice answers are no, no, and no. Insisting that women must be allowed to control their own bodies and make their own decisions is the opposite of dogmatism; it's a position that supports human liberty rather than restricting it. (And the framing of "respect for life" and "respect for the woman" as opposing forces implies that respect for life does not encompass respect for grown women, which is problematic, to say the least.) But what happens when we ask those same questions about issues of reproductive freedom other than abortion? What happens when we ask them about women who are so radically pro-life they'll endanger their own and their children's health in order to leave God in charge of their family planning?"