Their blather about "poverty" and supporting the "poor" is such B.S. -- there is nobody poorer than an unwanted, unborn child. The 'rats are big on helping the "poor," as long as they can get votes from those same "poor" come November. "You can't vote, kid, so into the medical waste pail you go. Sayonara!"
Actually the Dems are not spot on for helping the poor. They are for taking money from other people to help the poor. Or to be more honest to build more programs to hire more social workers to develop more programs to hire more social workers and on and on and on. In non government life this is called stealing. And no matter how noble is not considered justified.
Private charity is a tenant of Catholic faith but no right is as central and as essential as teaching on the right to life. All other tenants of the faith stem from that principle.
All their ideas on helping the poor are . . . shall we say idiosyncratic? IIRC, there was one year when John Kerry (vaunted champion of the poor) reported -0- in charitable donations (I don't think he's ever reported more than $300). Called on it, he said he had two kids in college. He didn't mention -- but Howie Carr found out -- that he also had to buy an $8,000 motorcycle.
Those who blabber the most about giving to the poor (which we are in fact enjoined to do) seem to be the most reluctant to reach into their own pockets!