Kerry on Abortion and the Catholic Vote while Campaigning for Obama in Iowa

[pstans]

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John Kerry stopped at the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown, IA on Wednesday to campaign for Barack Obama. Here Kerry is asked about the abortion issue and it affects Catholic voters.

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[bulloney]

1. Kerry at least has that much understanding of what Christ preached,

unlike these pious Right to Life nazis around where I live. They never really listen to what pro choice people's attitudes toward abortion are. They just think because you don't want to outlaw abortion, you want to kill every fetus up to the third trimester. There are actually people who say this to your face and write LTTEs in the local paper.

I remember the 2004 presidential campaign, where Kerry's own diocese argued that he wasn't fit to receive communion because he's pro-choice.

I'm glad to hear Kerry getting in the fact that abortions in the U.S. have increased under Bush, after declining under Clinton. And Kerry's right. Reducing abortions is not simply a matter of overturning Roe v. Wade. It's education and access to means of preventing pregnancies, not this abstinence only ideology that works only in the Palin family. (Wait a minute - never mind).

We have a new priest in our parish. During the last couple of masses I attended there, he was dropping little messages that you can only vote for candidates who are anti-abortion. I'm about ready to find another parish or another faith. I'm sick of the Catholic church attempting to turn every election into a referendum on abortion, forgetting that the church addresses several other "life" issues that Republicans are often on the opposite side of the church's position.

[wisteria]

2. Thank you for posting this. Abortion and Pro-choice issues had a major role in 2004

this election year, the issues seems to be mostly in the background. I like what Senator Kerry said, no one likes abortion and one way to make it a rare occurrence is through education and help. We should be working together to try and make abortions few. I believe Democrats are willing to work at this goal, the problem is the Republicans use this as a money making and vote getting issue. They have no real interest in making the need for abortions rare- it wouldn't benefit them.

[machI]

3. Kick

[politicasista]

4. Kick

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