Pro-life blogger and columnist Jill Stanek calls to task in her World Net Daily column today US Ambassador to Malta Doug Kmiec, a Catholic law professor who wrote a book that conveniently came out 7 weeks before the election last year entitled “Can a Catholic Support Him?” As you can guess, Kmiec, who touts himself as a pro-lifer, answered with a resounding “yes, Catholics can certainly support Obama!”
Why would a pro-life Catholic say that it’s okay to vote for a candidate who, at every chance he got, voted against life? Because Kmiec delved deep into the abyss of “common ground” and came to the conclusion that both Catholics and Obama want to reduce the need for abortions and unwanted pregnancies. Never mind that Obama and Catholics fundamentally differ on what happens to the baby after conception and whether or not that child should be killed.
So, as Kmiec explained it, Obama’s plan to lower the number of abortions if elected president was to pre-empt them by focusing on personal responsibility and education, which he saw as the “primary obligation of the community.”
Personal responsibly and education trumps the right to life? Mr. Kmiec should go find that in Catholic teaching and come back later when he has the citations.
Anyway, the focus of Jill’s piece is on the fact that President Obama, while promising that he wants to reduce the need for abortion, specifically asked Congress to fund abortions in Washington, DC, which, as Jill points out, is the “abortion capitol of the world,” where 54% of all pregnancies end in abortion.
And studies show that “decreased public funding of abortion results in 25 percent fewer abortions. So if Obama signs this bill, one of four babies who would have otherwise lived will be killed.”
It makes no sense for Obama to support federal funding of abortion since it will increase the number of abortions. But then again, maybe that was all just rhetoric- rhetoric that Kmiec helped to promote to no end.
Obama appears to be thwarting his own intentions by increasing access to abortion in an obviously abortion-vulnerable population, like giving an alcoholic a drink or taking a gambling addict to the casino.
So, what’ll be Mr. Kmiec? Do you stand by Obama as he breaks his promise to all those pro-life Catholics who got on your bandwagon?
Doug, we need you to help President Obama stand by those campaign promises you explained to us! You may have to drag yourself away from sipping Maltese honey liqueur and smoking spicy Maltese Cheroots with dignitaries on the embassy’s sun terrace, but it’s a sacrifice well worth making, we’re sure you’ll agree.
