Tag: abortion
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To Care About Life is to Care About Everything
Deal W. Hudson During the 2012 presidential campaign the most oft-repeated charge against pro-life social conservatives was that they not care about a human life after the moment of birth. When I was surprised to heard this charge from a Catholic bishop, I decided to write a response, and offered this simple argument: To be…
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Have the Bishops Become Tea Party Republicans?
Deal W. Hudson November 24, 2014 “Since most of the Catholics in Congress are both Democrat and pro-abortion it will be a hard sell, and the dissident Catholics in Congress are not used to getting the hard sell from USCCB lobbyists.” I’M SURPRISED at how few Catholics pundits have noticed the recent letter sent to members…
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Why Catholics Will Not Get Abortion Out of the Health Care Bill
Deal W. Hudson Published August 3, 2009 The Congress and the White House have little to fear from the bishops’ official statements opposing the abortion provisions in the health care bill. Unlike with President Barack Obama’s appearance at Notre Dame, there is no chorus of bishops’ voices rising in protest against the bill; most of…
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An Evening with Justice Blackmun on the Anniversary of Roe
Deal W. Hudson January 21, 2010 It was the summer of 1993 – 20 years after Roe v. Wade – and I was teaching a seminar at the Aspen Institute in Colorado with Mortimer Adler. Adler, famous for his Great Books approach to philosophy, was in his late 80s then and had asked for my…
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