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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> nrlc@nrlc.org [mailto:nrlc@nrlc.org]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 21, 2008 4:35 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Art
Kelly<BR><B>Subject:</B> Obama "most committed 'abortion-rights' presidential
candidate<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P align=left><B><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Today's News &
Views<BR>October 21, 2008</FONT></B></P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
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<P><B><FONT size=4>Archbishop Chaput: Senator Obama "most committed
'abortion-rights' presidential candidate of either major party since
the <I>Roe v. Wade</I> abortion decision"</FONT><FONT size=2> --
Part One of <A
href="http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Oct08/nv102108part2.html">Two</A></FONT></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>When
someone writes as eloquently and in such depth as Archbishop Charles
J. Chaput, summarizing what's said in a manner that honors its
complexity presents unique challenges.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>But
the speech the Denver Roman Catholic Archbishop delivered October 17
to a dinner of the Catholic Women's Group ENDOW (''Educating on the
Nature and Dignity of Women'') is so elegant, so important I'm going
to give it a go. </FONT></P>
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<P align=center><I><FONT id=role_document color=#000000
size=2><STRONG>Archbishop</STRONG> <STRONG>Charles J.
Chaput</STRONG></FONT></I></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>An
additional reason for talking about his far-reaching remarks is that
I can mention what I have inexcusably failed to note earlier.
Archbishop Chaput is the author of the wonderful new book, "Render
Unto Caesar."</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>Let me
begin by emphasizing what the Archbishop emphasized. He was not
telling anyone how to vote and that what he had to say were "my
personal views, nothing more." (He added, "I think they're pretty
solidly grounded in Catholic teaching and the heart of the
Church.")</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>Let me
offer four quotations from his remarks.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 10px 40px 10px 35px"><FONT size=2>1. "[D]emocratic
pluralism does not mean that Catholics should be quiet in public
about serious moral issues because of some misguided sense of good
manners. A healthy democracy requires vigorous moral debate to
survive. Real pluralism demands that people of strong beliefs will
advance their convictions in the public square--peacefully, legally
and respectfully, but energetically and without embarrassment.
Anything less is bad citizenship and a form of theft from the public
conversation."</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 10px 40px 10px 35px"><FONT size=2>What a
fascinating insight, not limited to Catholics citizens, of course.
It not only is incumbent on us to argue our case vigorously, to do
otherwise is to deprive the public conversation of an important
ingredient. Our participation is not an unnecessary add-on, but a
crucial component to an educated citizenry.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 10px 40px 10px 35px"><FONT size=2>2. "I believe
that Senator Obama, whatever his other talents, is the most
committed 'abortion-rights' presidential candidate of either major
party since the Roe v. Wade abortion decision in 1973. " The "party
platform Senator Obama runs on this year is not only aggressively
'pro-choice.' it has also removed any suggestion that killing an
unborn child might be a regrettable thing." </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 10px 40px 10px 35px"><FONT size=2>Obama supporters
have spun the changes in the party platform every which way but up.
Far from suggesting a softening or a "reaching out" to pro-lifers,
the Democratic Party's 2008 platform is even more cold-hearted, even
more committed to enlarging the pool of aborted babies.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 10px 40px 10px 35px"><FONT size=2>3. Referring to
Prof. Douglas Kmiec's book, Can a Catholic Support Him? Asking the
Big Question about Barack Obama, Archbishop Chaput said, "Prof.
Kmiec argues that there are defensible motives to support Senator
Obama. Speaking for myself, I do not know any proportionate reason
that could outweigh more than 40 million unborn children killed by
abortion and the many millions of women deeply wounded by the loss
and regret abortion creates. To suggest--as some Catholics do--that
Senator Obama is this year's ''real' prolife candidate requires a
peculiar kind of self-hypnosis, or moral confusion, or worse. To
portray the 2008 Democratic Party presidential ticket as the
preferred 'prolife' option is to subvert what the word 'prolife'
means."</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 10px 40px 10px 35px"><FONT size=2>4. (This falls
in the "nothing new under the sun" category.) "And here's the irony.
None of the Catholic arguments advanced in favor of Senator Obama
are new. They've been around, in one form or another, for more than
25 years. All of them seek to 'get beyond' abortion, or economically
reduce the number of abortions, or create a better society where
abortion won't be necessary. All of them involve a misuse of the
seamless garment imagery in Catholic social teaching. And all of
them, in practice, seek to contextualize, demote and then
counterbalance the evil of abortion with other important but less
foundational social issues."</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>What
is new is the level of intensity, sophistication, and sophistry
we've seen going back to 2004. Following the defeat of Sen. John
Kerry, pro-abortionists grasped that they had to rhetorically change
their position while (if anything) hardening their commitment to
abortion on demand at tax-payers' expense. The American electorate
needed to be convinced the leopard had changed its spots.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>Right
now, depending on whom you believe, the Catholic vote is either
slightly tilting toward Obama or split down the middle. What's clear
is that this segment of the electorate is the most willing to tell
pollsters that they are uncommitted or could change their minds by
election day.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px"><FONT size=2>To
help Americans of all religious persuasions or none understand the
abortion positions of pro-life Sen. John McCain and pro-abortion
Sen. Barack Obama, please download the presidential comparison sheet
at <A
href="http://nrlc.org/Election2008/comparison0909084c.pdf">http://nrlc.org/Election2008/comparison0909084c.pdf</A>.
You can also order multiple copies online at only a nickel each at
<A
href="http://www.nrlchapters.org/comparisonbuy.htm">http://www.nrlchapters.org/comparisonbuy.htm</A>
and have them sent out the same day.</FONT></P>
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href="http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Oct08/nv102108part2.html">Part
Two</A> -- CFC and Other Workplace Campaigns Indispensable to
Pro-Life Educational
Efforts</SPAN></B></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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