Moderate Mitt and the pro-life cause | National Catholic Reporter

Moderate Mitt and the pro-life cause | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: If the Catholic tradition is not invovled in prophetic speaking with regards to the state than something is wrong. It desparately needs to be, and more on economics than abortion. As for the Susan B. Anthony fund, it has no integrity. It, and much of the pro-life movement, are the religious wing of the Republican Party. Most pro-life Democrats already know this and keep most of the movement at arms lenght. MSW should take off the rose colored glasses and join them.


The movement in most respects is a scam, and will be until it produces federal legislation that moves personhood to gastrulation, the start of the fetal heartbeat, the begining of the second trimester or assisted viability which also deals intelligently with the needed equal protection issues regarding how miscarriages are treated insofar as investigations and torte relief. Since such a law would be almost impossible, don't hold your breath - and until such a bill is on the table the entire movement is the equivalent of voting for puppies. Where we can have an impact is in making abortion economically unthinkable by guaranteeing the economic and career rights of young parents and enacting suffiencient income support for all families (and dropping the focus on facilitating adoption).