Non-Negotiables: Just 5? | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The three non-negotiables in the Bishop's letter last month (Marriage equality, abortion, conscience protection) are not even legislative issues, so I question why they are political issues at all, since they are about constitutional law. On such issues, Republican appointees are as likely to vote with Democratic appointees as not, although it is true that Democratic appointees do seem to have a better understanding of individual rights. When did that become a bad thing in a natural rights Republic? Abortion will only be a legislative issue when the right to life movement produces a bill that threads the needle between granting legal status to embroys and fetuses (or ignores first trimester embryos altogether) and not doing violence to equal protection law in dealing with statutes on murder, criminal torts and granting legal personhood to embryos destined to miscarry. No bill, no issue. Put up or shut up.
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