Elizabeth Scalia: The Catholic Vote and the Counterbalance to Abortion
Elizabeth Scalia’s article is featured at Pajamas Media:
On the surface, that argument seems reasonable — so reasonable, in fact, that the ardently pro-life Archbishop Charles Chaput, of Denver, writes of forming his own conscience in just such a way in 1976:
I knew Carter was wrong in his views about Roe and soft toward permissive abortion. But even as a priest, I justified working for him because…he was right on so many more of the “Catholic” issues than his opponent seemed to be. The moral calculus looked easy.
The moral calculus does look easy until one considers that war, torture, the death penalty, poverty, racism, and even the excesses of capitalism — those evils so well defined in Catholic social teaching, and of concern to Catholics of all political persuasions — are fully present in the act of abortion.
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It was Teddy Roosevelt who warned: ‘even a half step towards evil is wrong” Carter was never right on anything,that statement is just silly..and just clouds the issue..its like the nonsense that the so-called Americas mayor had used for him..well he may be immoral,pro-abortion,pro-same sex marriage,pro-adultery..but he is for law and order..yeh sure and Mussolini did make the trains run on time and Hitler was a vegetarian. Nino