Are They Running Out of Saint Candidates?

From the Vatican:

Pope John Paul II named six new saints yesterday, including a woman who became a symbol for opponents of abortion because she refused to end her pregnancy despite warnings that it could kill her.

With all due deference, so?

People make choices like this every single damned day. I suspect the woman's other three children might have preferred to have their mother alive to raise them.

That her story has become a magnet for anti-abortion nut cases (and no, certainly, not everyone who feels abortion is wrong is a nutcase, but those who feel their objections outweigh a woman's right to choose begin that long dark journey into loon land, IMHO) is more to the point... the Vatican's point, anyway.

That not every choice is a wise one hardly seems to qualify one for sainthood, or we'd have five saints on the Supreme Court alone. But this woman made her choice, and other women, some of who may not share her convictions, have a right to choose as well.