"In Indonesia, Catholics, Muslims, Protestants, Buddhists and Hindus joined together..."

Adapted from First Things magazine, January 2010.

"In Indonesia, Catholics, Muslims, Protestants, Buddhists and Hindus joined together to protest the liberalization joined together to protest the liberalizing of Indonesia's abortion laws, according to the Catholic News Agency .

"It seems extraordinary that, in an overwhelmingly religious country dominated by Muslims, an attempt to legalize abortion would have gotten even this far.

"But the interreligious coalition opposing it serves as one more counterexample to the ecanard that pro - life advocacy is necessarily sectarian -- or even monotheistic..."