>>There is something called freedom of conscience in the
It's an implicit freedom -- you can disobey the Church if you want to. However, using that freedom may allow you to persist in sin and inherit hell as a consequence. It's not a free pass.
The Church is also against murder. But Kerry would never apply "Freedom of Conscience" to murder. If he truely believed life begins at conception, he must then see abortion as murder, and he should oppose it just like any other murder.