The Wall Street Journal's William McGurn makes a good point concerning unintended consequences in his column "NARAL Catholics Line Up for Obama," here, today.
McGurn mentions that most members of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's National Catholic Advisory Council have NARAL Pro-Choice America's "seal of approval" before noting:
It's not as if these NARAL scores are outliers: Sen. Obama himself boasts a 100% NARAL rating, and for good reason. In a speech before Planned Parenthood, he declared that the right to an abortion is at stake in this election, and vowed that he would not yield on appointing judges that would uphold Roe v. Wade.
Mr. Obama is for using tax dollars to fund abortions, and against restrictions on partial-birth abortion. In the Illinois Senate, he voted against legislation protecting a child who was born alive despite an abortion. In sum, if you want to know what Mr. Obama's policies mean, it's this: taxpayer-funded abortion on demand.
So where in this partnership of abortion-friendly NARALites and Catholics is the good news for the voiceless unborn?
"The political reality is that a National Catholic Advisory Council may do less to advance Mr. Obama than to alert the public about how extreme his votes and policies are - not to mention the similar votes and policies of the Catholic politicians supporting him," according to McGurn.
Here's hoping and praying that McGurn is right.
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