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Some argue that we should not focus on policies that provide help for pregnant women, but just focus on the essential task of establishing legal protections for children in the womb. Others argue that providing lifeaffirming support for pregnant women should be our only focus and this should take the place of efforts to establish legal protections for unborn children. We want to be clear that neither argument is consistent with Catholic teaching. Our faith requires us to oppose abortion on demand and to provide help to mothers facing challenging pregnancies. In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade...

Verastegui has spoken at several McCain-Palin rallies. In Miami, the capital of Latin America and the first U.S. city where Verastegui lived, he campaigned for John McCain with McCain’s Senate allies Joe Lieberman and Mel Martinez, as well as Florida’s former governor, Jeb Bush and Governor Charlie Crist. Verastegui said, “There I was, just an actor from Hollywood, not even a politician. “I said more than 45 million babies have been killed by abortion in America and more than 200,000 Latino babies are killed by abortion each year. I told everyone that we need to put an end to this...

They said there are only two conditions when voting for a pro-abortion candidate is permissible: "A. If both candidates running for office support abortion or 'abortion rights,' a Catholic would be forced to then look at the other important issues and through their vote try to limit the evil done; or, "B. If another intrinsic evil outweighs the evil of abortion. While this is sound moral reasoning, there are no 'truly grave moral' or 'proportionate' reasons, singularly or combined, that could outweigh the millions of innocent human lives that are directly killed by legal abortion each year. "To vote for...

I do not want to be called a “conservative”. Much of what is corrupt in the current culture I do not want to conserve. I reject the term “liberal” since it is now associated with a definition of “freedom” and “privacy” which actually tries to defend reaching into the first home of the whole human race, the womb, and dismembering fellow human persons who are not wanted and then further insists that this evil act be enforced as a “right” with the Police Power of the State. I cannot understand how anyone who considered themselves a part of the old...