It’s hard to know where to begin with this. It’s both sad and infuriating at the same time.

First of all, for those of you who do not remember Professor Douglas Kmiec, he is a conservative Catholic pro-life family man who made headlines and upset pro-life Catholics everywhere last year when he “enthusiastically” supported Barack Obama for the presidency.

Two weeks ago, Professor Kmiec was sworn in as Ambassador to Malta after being nominated to the position by now President Obama, and though it has caught little attention, catholicculture.org reported on an interview Ambassador Kmiec gave to The Times of Malta in which he discusses how a conservative pro-life Catholic came to support a candidate like Barack Obama.

Kmiec also recounted a conversation in which then-Senator Obama called abortion the “taking of the life of a child”:

Mr Obama asked Prof. Kmiec: “What would cause a mother to contemplate taking the life of a child? It has to be something awful. It has to be a woman without shelter, without insurance, without the next meal on the table.”

I guess we are all supposed to be impressed that President Obama said abortion is the “taking of the life of a child.” However, Obama has refused to be this clear with the rest of us, stating instead that such knowledge is “above his paygrade.” It would be nice for the President to have been this clear at his Notre Dame speech back in May.

But the truly disturbing part of this exchange is the second part when Obama reflects on the demographics of abortion. As for Kmiec, I have no reason to question his sincerity. He has a track record for being a conservative pro-life guy. He could simply be misinformed about the reality of abortion and who it affects.

But, as for Obama, I have a very hard time believing that the most pro-abortion president we have ever had, who has spent his entire career working side-by-side with Planned Parenthood and NARAL, and accepting endorsements and campaign contributions from pro-choice advocacy groups, and voting against the Infants Born Alive acts in IL, and stating publically that abortion is a necessary medical right, and reversing the Mexico City Policy days after becoming president, and nominating himself to be the mediator in the public debate on abortion, really and truly believes that the only people who get abortions are starving homeless people.

Starving homeless people? If that’s the case, then who is purchasing these T-Shirts from Amazon.com?

Again, it is sad that there are people – good people – like Professor Kmiec who are probably just terribly misinformed about the reality of abortion.

But, it is infuriating that there are people like the president who use their influence to keep people like Kmiec in the dark.

Patrick Looby, Fredericksburg, VA