Editorial: Questioning McCain and Obama

Catholic Online ^ | 6/17/08 | Deacon Keith Fournier

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As I have consistently and repeatedly said - and extensively written- I cannot and will not support any candidate who fails to hear the cry of the poorest of the poor in the first home of the whole human race, the child in the womb.

In the words of the late servant of God, John Paul II, “abortion is the cutting edge of the culture of death” and it has resulted in the loss of over fifty million of our neighbors. It simply must end.

The Abortion issue is for our day what the evil of slavery was for another, our greatest moral challenge as a free people. I will welcome the end of Roe, which the Senator from Arizona at least seems to support.

However, I believe the abortion issue is far more than just an issue of Federalism or picking strict constructionist judges for the bench.That is where the Senator places his emphasis. The current shameful enforcement of abortion on demand as a "right" involves our National rejection of the Natural Law and the clear principles found within our own Declaration of Independence which are derived from it.

We should avoid Fifty State battles over this divisive and deadly issue.

Abortion is the taking of innocent human life and it should be illegal in the same manner as all other taking of innocent human life is. That is why I support a Federal Constitutional Amendment which would simply affirm the Right to Life as found in the Declaration of Independence.

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Both major US Presidential candidates held invitation only meetings with Christian leaders this past week.

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Senator Barack Hussein Obama (D-IL) is pro-abortion, even up to letting a child die that survives an abortion: Senator John S. McCain (R-AZ) is pro-life and anti-abortion. It’s as simple as that, folks!