[arkady_renko]

Bishop John Keating summed it up pretty well about 10 years ago:

No one needs the revelation of God or an act of faith in his word to know that abortion is ethically and morally wrong. People of all faiths and of no faith at all can reason to that fact. Witnessing an abortion certainly accelerates the process.

The fact that the Church reaffirms a human right or a civil right of mankind does not make that human right or civil right a "religious belief." When the Church teaches that rape is wrong, the immorality of rape does not thereby become a "religious belief." When the Catholic Church continues to affirm—century after century, in every country the world over—that abortion is a gross distortion of human rights, a horrible crime against humanity, it is simply stating what civilized society, in its dispassionate and nobler moments, can figure out for itself, without the help of revealed religion.

In other words - John Kerry does not need to invoke his Catholicism for his DEFENSE of supporting abortion. The Moral Law, independent of his 'Catholicism' is telling his conscience that it is wrong. It is NOT a religious issue at all.

I posted the full statement here.

A_R

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The teaching that abortion is wrong, immoral, and unlawful is not an "article of faith" or a mere "belief" as Kerry likes to lead on. It is a logical judgment of reason in natural law ethics. The church also teaches that murdering adult humans, rape, and stealing are wrong. Would Kerry like to make them legal so as to prevent non-Catholic Americans from having Catholic teaching imposed on them and to uphold the "separation of church and state"? [irony]

There is no end to this silliness. Kerry is woefully misinformed on these matters.