It’s true. I, Matthew Steven, have solved the abortion issue with a compromise that should suit all parties, and no law needs to be drawn up to implement it.

If a member of the Roman Catholic Church has an abortion, then by church rules they should suffer the consequences. They should have to go to prison for murder.

But the rest of the people who do not believe that it is murder should not have to pay for it.

Therefore the answer is to have churches exercise the power to imprison their own members, but with a few stipulations that already exist in law.

First, should the member publicly renounce their faith and agree to permanently be expelled from the church community, they will no longer be under the church jurisdiction and shall be free to leave whatever punishment has been imposed on them by their congregation.

Second, no permanent harm may be done- no executions, no torture, no repeat of the Spanish Inquisition. The churches are only imprisoning voluntary prisoners and are not allowed to break any laws, period. Nor do they have the authority of the state to execute people. The state will have the right to inspect these prisons at any time.

Finally of course the churches shall have to pay for their prisons on their own. Since their prisoners are only there for breaking church law but not national law, the rest of the nation who may not agree with the criminality of the act should not have to pay for it.