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The Catholic Vote and the Counterbalance to Abortion
Jul 14th, 2008 by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Hat Tip: The Anchoress
From Pajamas Media:
by Elizabeth Scalia
How can Catholics for Obama rationalize their support for the pro-choice candidate?
In his column of June 24, Wall Street Journal writer William McGurn looked at the mostly NARAL-friendly Catholics named to the Obama campaign’s National Catholic Advisory Council. Noting that Obama enjoys a NARAL approval rating of 100%, and that — while in the Illinois State Senate — he voted against a measure similar in intent to the unanimously approved 2002 Federal Born Alive Act, McGurn wonders how the council and other Catholics for Obama can rationalize support for a candidate who stands in such profound contrast to the church’s firm teaching that abortion is “an intrinsic evil.”