another hope dead in the cradle

By Diogenes ( articles ) | Sep 04, 2006

Already playing for the wrong team on the gay marriage issue, Senate candidate Bob Casey has now thrown over Catholic teaching on life (and dishonored his father's memory) by taking a dive for Plan B. Rod Dreher reports on Casey's Meet the Press capitulation:

Then the Plan B issue came up. Santorum said flat-out that the pill is sometimes abortifacient, which is certainly true if you believe that life begins at conception; the pill can work by preventing the fertilized egg (that is, a human being) from implanting on the uterine wall. Santorum said he was against Plan B for that reason. Casey, who insists he's pro-life, said he was in favor of Plan B because "the science is clear" that it's contraception. That's a shameful dodge. The science is clear about how Plan B works; whether or not that counts as abortion is a moral question -- and a question that the Catholic Church answers very clearly.

Perhaps his bishop might remind Casey that, even when the effect of Plan B is contraceptive rather than abortifacient, its use is mortally sinful.

So yet another of our next-generation "Catholic" Democrats puts his faith into action in the Georgetown-approved mode. We can be reasonably sure that, if elected, he'll implement the policy of the USCCB on wetlands reclamation.