"I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an atheist," he continued. "We have separation of church and state in the United States of America."
Unless this man is a totally base sociopath he can not mean what he says here.
If you believe that life begins at conception then to intentionally abort a human fetus is to intentionally end a human life.
This is of course murder.
The last I heard murder was a crime against the State and in many states a capital crime.
I don’t see Mr. Kerry’s Catholicism being an issue in legislating against murder.
It is the same position as that taken by Mario Cuomo. Remember him?