"Unless one is willing to defend all human beings from the moment of conception (fertilization), one is only partially pro-life." Well then, remove me from all prolife ping lists and don't even ask for responses because I'm not a Catholic, I do support the death PENALTY, and I see a serious problem in reconciling the right of self-defense and the right to live once conceived. [Has FR become the Catholic extension for conservatives? Since when is mischaracterization a proper function for a Catholic Priest in defense of the unborn? Where is the evidence that Plan B is actually abortifacient? ... and I don't mean the outdated info of the maker of this pill, I mean the proof of the assertions that zip through here hot and heavy, always seeming to yake potshots at Bush as an aside, as if that isn't the real agenda.]
The Catholic Church's supposed opposition to the death penalty isn't dogmatic. Catholics are free to agree or disagree with the Church's stance on the issue.