There is so much bad faith and general dishonesty in public discourse over contentious issues, and particularly when people argue about abortion, that it is refreshing when someone tells the unvarnished truth about what they believe. This happened in the white-hot abortion debate in Argentina, which ended last night as the nation's senate approved a bill legalizing abortion for any reason up to fourteen weeks, and after that for children conceived by rape or to protect the mother's health. Pope Francis, no shrinking violet in this debate, had weighed-in with very strong support for both mother and her prenatal child. Encouraging the pro-life movement of his native country, the Holy Father insisted that they have the scientifically correct position. Their opponents deny the science of not only the baby’s human reality, but the astonishingly beautiful biological reality of both of them in relationship to each other. Opponents of the pro-life movement in Argentina — including President Alberto Fernandez — do not deny the biological reality of the baby as much as ignore it. When asked whether the pope would be angry with him for moving to legalize abortion, for instance, Fernandez bypassed the issue by saying he was trying to address “a public health problem.” As the Holy Father asked in a public letter supporting pro-life women in Argentina: “Is it fair to eliminate a human life to solve a problem? Is it fair to hire a hitman to solve a problem?”