A good friend posted this on his site: http://www.rightsidepolitics.com/ - I thought it was a good perspective and hopefully one that will be listened to.

Monday, November 10, 2008

By Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

BALTIMORE -- Addressing the Catholic bishops of the U.S, their president, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, said Americans must rejoice that society has changed enough to elect a black president, but he also drew parallels between a long overturned Supreme Court ruling that upheld slavery and the Supreme Court decisions upholding the right to legal abortion.

"The common good can never be adequately incarnated in any society when those waiting to be born can legally be killed as choice," he said to lengthy applause from nearly 300 bishops at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting in Baltimore.

"If the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision that African Americans were other people's property and somehow less than persons were still settled, constitutional law, Mr. Obama would not be president of the United States. Today, as was the case 150 years ago, common ground cannot be found by destroying the common good."

In 1857 the Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott, a slave who had lived for a long time with his master in the free state of Illinois, could not be declared free after his master died. Seven of the nine justices ruled that no slave or descendant of a slave could ever be a U.S. citizen.

Found at http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08315/926879-100.stm on November 13, 2008.

Let us always remember though those cases of rape and incest - those were not a matter of their choice, but rather the evil and malignant choices of another. Also, when the life of the mother is in jeopardy, there should be an understanding about her life too. But with that said and that understanding of when an abortion could make moral sense based on the prayerfull decisions of those involved, that for all other cases of abortion - "The common good can never be adequately incarnated in any society when those waiting to be born can legally be killed as choice." That is powerfully stated.