Chaput the Great is
gently skeptical of Catholics for Obama. Specifically he writes to correct the group's incomplete use of his words to justify their position. Along the way he notes that he's moved from being a Carter activist in '76 and '80 to noting he's never known a pro-choice politician who ever did anything to limit abortion in anyway. His conclusion:
Changing the views of “pro-choice” candidates takes a lot more than verbal gymnastics, good alibis, and pious talk about “personal opposition” to killing unborn children. I’m sure Roman Catholics for Obama know that, and I wish them good luck. They’ll need it.
I use this merely as a peg to note that Obama is arguably not
even "personally opposed" to abortion. Depending on how you read his remarks
he may have told us that he would abort his own grandchild rather than see one of his daughters "punished" with a child.
When it comes specifically to HIV/AIDS, the most important prevention is education, which should include — which should include abstinence education and teaching the children — teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual. But it should also include — it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at the age of 16. You know, so it doesn’t make sense to not give them information.
I'm really not sure what he meant, but it least appears that abortion isn't something Obama forswears but is loathe to deny to others; it's the choice he would make for his own daughter. That would make him not reluctantly accepting of abortion, but its
champion.
