A recent web-only piece over at Christianity Todaypulled together some string on what could emerge as the next front in the abortion wars, especially with the silly campaign season coming on--namely, challengingpro-lifers to articulate the penalties in a society of re-criminalized abortion. The pro-choice refrain is "How much time should she serve?" in reference to the mother who aborts her fetus. The emerging pro-life response is an interesting one: that abortion is not murder, as understood under the law. It was especially surprising to hear the prominent Southern Baptist leader Richard Land espouse that view, adding the savvy (in my view) opinion that abortionists might be given a lesser charge of manslaughter. That isnot necessarily a tenable position if the pro-life movement were held to the letter and spiritof much of its louder rhetoric. But the emerging pro-life response does seem an example of the political agility of the movement (as per Saletan's "Bearing Right") and its willingness to take half a loaf, as opposed to the more dogmatic pro-choice camp. Or it could signal a problem for the pro-life side.