Flores & the Consistent Ethic of Life | National Catholic Reporter

Flores & the Consistent Ethic of Life | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Democrats are quite willing to defend the unborn child by increasing wages and the child tax credit enough so that no woman would ever think of an abortion for other than health reasons.  Sadly, when this gets brought up, the Republicans start talking about personal financial responsibility.  Additionally, Democratic Catholics have been quite respectful to the hierarchy on this issue - rather than explaining exactly why Roe cannot be repealed on jurisdictional grounds (it would kill privacy and equal protection - which while the hierarchs would like that - America would not) - and on how the equal protection problems of passing a first trimester ban are largely insurmountable (having to do with making children doomed to be miscarried a legal person).  Sadly, the Democrats are not so good on immigration either.  All of the punitive measures in the Senate Bill need to be stripped out, with citizenship eligiblity (after taking the normal tests and being fluent enough in English) after seven years of residence.  Its a mixed bag either way.  Parties that take money will reflect the established interests - including and especially Food, Inc., which likes cheap labor that will work in bad conditions and has no option to seek out regulatory help without deportation.  A consistent ethic of life would take such deportations off the table.