Kirsten Powers comes full circle to progressivism and Biblical cherry-picking

There was a time when I sort of predicted that Kirsten Powers was on the verge of a full-blown conversion experience. Of the ideological sort. She's already had her spiritual conversion experience, which she recounts in the USA Today piece I'm about to link to and excerpt from. She was your basic Acela Corridor secular agnostic who became an evangelical through a boyfriend some years back. Quite a leap, and around the time, she started exhibiting signs of being a voice of reason on the left side of the spectrum, even going so far as to write a book about how the Left tries to silence critics rather than engage them.

She went on to become a Catholic, and she switched networks for her television commentary (FNC to CNN). She also jettisoned any voice-of-reason bona fides, and that column today confirms that.

She is basically saying that she finds a core set of immutable principles overrated:

I long valued intellectual consistency above all. It was a theoretically laudable trait until it gave way to a myopic moral certainty that created troubling blind spots. This damaging predilection long predated my conversion to Christianity, which turned a tiny spark of certitude into a raging inferno of unyielding self-righteousness.

She doesn't just leave it at the level of challenging pro-lifers to consider the hard cases and inviting them to come to the table and help find solutions. She has the solutions, and they're leftist: universal health care and gun control.  In other words, wealth redistribution and and abnegation of individual sovereignty.

A life is a life, Kirsten. And by the way, less than percent of abortions are performed to save the life of the mother.