[Cicero]

Hatch is usually conservative, but he has given in at key, strategic moments on the abortion front. Most egregiously, he was the man chiefly responsible for shooting down the Right-to-Life bill in the early days after Roe v. Wade was promulgated. It failed by a single vote, and Hatch was the man responsible--with the aid of Cardinal Bernardin and the National Bishops Conference bureaucracy which he controlled, who persuaded many of the Catholic bishops at the time that they should hold out for a right-to-life amendment and therefore should oppose the right-to-life bill. That lost pro-lifers momentum at a critical moment, and it took 20 years or more to start getting it back.

[Paulus Invictus]

Hatch is and always has been anti-abortion. He will never change. If you think otherwise, you are wrong on this one.

Now, when it comes to granting illegals some kind of amnesty, he is a real dork and I have let him know (to no avail). The state's senators have a thing about never answering constituent letters. It's frustrating. The best way to get their attention is to visit their local offices and rant to the staff for a while.

[attagirl]

It failed by a single vote, and Hatch was the man responsible--with the aid of Cardinal Bernardin

Thank you for the history lesson. I see Hatch has been a double-agent longer than I've been paying attention.

As for Bernardin, you mean the cardinal of Centurycity? (If you haven't read Windswept House, do.)