A pro-Obama anti-abortion Catholic explains himself

Doug Kmiec, the Catholic legal scholar (and Reagan White House veteran) who was famously denied Communion because he supports Barack Obama’s presidential bid, attempts to explain himself to fellow Catholics who say Obama’s support of abortion rights is a deal-breaker. From the Chicago Tribune: “The central hope of the Obama campaign is to find common […]

Doug Kmiec, the Catholic legal scholar (and Reagan White House veteran) who was famously denied Communion because he supports Barack Obama’s presidential bid, attempts to explain himself to fellow Catholics who say Obama’s support of abortion rights is a deal-breaker.

From the Chicago Tribune:

“The central hope of the Obama campaign is to find common ground-not by “favoring” that which can never be acceptable, the taking of innocent unborn life, but by dealing with the legal reality in a way that at least reduces the likelihood of abortion.”


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