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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!There is a disquieting reason Ruth Bader Ginsburg's defenders have been denying, however implausibly, the clear meaning of the Supreme Court justice's recent remarks about the history of abortion law, and that reason is this: Historically, eugenics has always been a significant component of the intellectual underpinnings – and political impetus – of the movement to legalize abortion. ...
Here's my abortion question, not for Sonia Sotomayor, but for the Senate Judiciary Committee: If all of you are so confident that the judges you tend to agree with decide cases strictly on the law, with all personal opinions left in hermetically sealed containers back home in the freezer, then why is every one of you is so determined to get Supreme Court nominees to talk about their private views on this topic in particular? ...
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, the Archbishop of Houston, joined a growing list of bishops and lay Catholics to denounce the University of Notre Dame for inviting President Barack Obama to speak at its commencement ceremonies this spring. DiNardo becomes the first American Cardinal to criticize the university for extending the invitation to Obama, who unabashedly supports what some call the most extreme view of abortion rights of any president since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision of the Supreme Court in 1973. Four other Catholic bishops, including Bishop John D'Arcy of the Northern Indiana ...
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