Lawyer and putative Catholic Dr. Nicholas Cafardi, a professor at Duquesne University, wrote an opinion piece attempting to justify his pr-Obama position in the ultra-liberal National “Catholic” Reporter. My response follows:
The Freedom of Choice Act, which Senator Obama has pledged to sign as his first act should he be elected president, removes ALL RESTRICTIONS on abortions that have been approved by the various states. Parental notification, partial-birth abortion bans, all of them, gone.
Dr. Cafardi rightly points out the new language in the Democrats’ platform about reducing poverty and other “causes” of abortion. But he ignores the leadoff paragraph in the platform’s section on “choice”, which is immediately above Cafardi’s reference, where the Democrats pledge themselves to oppose ALL RESTRICTIONS against abortion:
“The Democratic Party strong and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to undermine or weaken that right.”
Democrats that adhere to their party’s platform are committing to abortion, no matter what twists of logic they employ to justify their vote. Catholic Democrats who are pinning their hopes on the new language about Obama reducing “causes” of abortion are being sold a lie. The vast majority of Obama’s supporters are equally convinced that he will not act in any way to prevent them from killing children. Want to take bets on who’s going to be right?
