MGB:_No one ever was kicking pro-life Democrats out of the party, so long as they were personally pro-life and not in favor of broad restrictions. This allowed pro-choice Catholics to argue that they were personally pro-life but respected the rights of their constituents who might want an abortion. Their personal stance stopped the local bishop from being able to attack them, although it did not stave off attacks from pro-lifers, which is street cred for pro-choice supporters. People wonder why Catholics are viewed as cagey?
Comments on Distinctly Catholic by Michael Sean Winters at National Catholic Reporter.
Monday, August 7, 2017
No litmus test on abortion: a good sign for Democrats
https://www.ncronline.org/news/politics/no-litmus-test-abortion-good-sign-democrats
MGB:_No one ever was kicking pro-life Democrats out of the party, so long as they were personally pro-life and not in favor of broad restrictions. This allowed pro-choice Catholics to argue that they were personally pro-life but respected the rights of their constituents who might want an abortion. Their personal stance stopped the local bishop from being able to attack them, although it did not stave off attacks from pro-lifers, which is street cred for pro-choice supporters. People wonder why Catholics are viewed as cagey?
I prefer honesty.
Pro-Choice politicians need to explain to the bishops and voters why Roe was rightly
decided and why privacy rights (the right to be left alone by legislators) and Roe,
as 14th Amendment law, was rightly decided and how to get around it with congressional
action. Such action would likely leave us at the status quo and end the debate and
all action on the issue. That would be worth the price of admission, which would
end all hope of some miracle from SCOTUS.
MGB:_No one ever was kicking pro-life Democrats out of the party, so long as they were personally pro-life and not in favor of broad restrictions. This allowed pro-choice Catholics to argue that they were personally pro-life but respected the rights of their constituents who might want an abortion. Their personal stance stopped the local bishop from being able to attack them, although it did not stave off attacks from pro-lifers, which is street cred for pro-choice supporters. People wonder why Catholics are viewed as cagey?
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