We've come along way since JFK

[question everything]

being the first Catholic candidate.

Kerry was, and now Biden, Dodd, Kucincih - that I am aware of.

Kerry did not handle the abortion question adequately and I hope that if any of these gentlemen is the candidate, that he will be prepared.

When Kerry put his hand on his heart and said that he, personally, was against abortion, he lost all credibility on this subject, and, perhaps, on others.

The way to handle this is to emphasize sex education, and funds for adoption and for health care for babies and infants. And neo-natal care and severe punishment for anyone threatening abortion clinics and doctors.

And perhaps go with Ruth Bader Ginsburg's concept of equality, rather than privacy.

In 1985, Ginsburg, then a federal appeals court judge, argued in a law review article that the court should have emphasized "a woman's autonomous charge of her full life's course." Citing decisions on sex equality, she contended that Roe vs. Wade was "weakened … by the opinion's concentration on a medically approved autonomy idea, to the exclusion of a constitutionally based sex-equality perspective."

In this week's case, Ginsburg, now the only woman on the court, attempted to re-conceive the foundations of the abortion right, basing it on well-established constitutional principles of equality. Borrowing from her 1985 argument, she said that legal challenges to restrictions on abortion procedures "do not seek to vindicate some generalized notion of privacy; rather, they center on a woman's autonomy to determine her life's course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature."

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