A LOT OF CATHOLICS KNOW MCCAIN IS NOT SERIOUSLY PRO-LIFE.
From
http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/files/mccain_fact_sheet.pdf
**In His Own Words **
• Discussing his pro life voting record, McCain said, “I have many, many votes and it’s been consistent. And I’ve got a consistent zero from NARAL throughout all those years…. [M]y record is clear. And I think the important thing is you look at people’s voting record because sometimes rhetoric can be a little… misleading…. As you know I don’t support Roe v. Wade…. I thought it was a bad decision, and I think that the decision should be made in the states.”62
• “I’m proud that we have Justice Alito and Roberts on the United States Supreme Court. I’m very proud to have played a very small role in making that happen.”63 McCain explained further that he “will try to find clones of Alito and Roberts” to fill future court vacancies.64
Preserving Roe v. Wade and a Woman’s Right to Choose
������ Voted against a resolution in support of Roe v. Wade and a woman’s constitutional right to safe and legal abortion services.4
������ Repeatedly voted for (and cosponsored) the Federal Abortion Ban, a law that criminalizes some abortion services, with no exception to protect a woman’s health, and carries up to a two year prison sentence for doctors.5
������ Supported the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, a law that grants separate legal status to an embryo or fetus,6 which anti choice Sen. Orrin Hatch (R UT) boasted “undermines abortion rights.”7
������ Voted to codify a controversial regulation that allows states to make an embryo or fetus – but not a pregnant woman – eligible for health care coverage.8
������ Voted in favor of President Bush’s nomination of John Ashcroft to be the U.S. Attorney General.9 Ashcroft has called abortion “an atrocity against the future”10 and expressed his “hope that the [U.S.] Supreme Court announces it is overturning the Roe decision.”11
Voted in favor of four anti choice U.S. Supreme Court nominees:
������ Samuel Alito, nominated to be associate justice.12 After joining the Court, Justice Alito cast the deciding vote upholding the Federal Abortion Ban, a ban that
criminalizes some abortion services, with no exception to protect a woman’s health, and carries up to a two year prison sentence for doctors.13
������ John Roberts, nominated to be chief justice.14 After joining the Court, Chief Justice Roberts voted to uphold the Federal Abortion Ban, a ban that criminalizes some abortion services, with no exception to protect a woman’s health, and carries up to a two year prison sentence for doctors.15
������ Clarence Thomas, nominated to be associate justice.16 After joining the Court, Justice Thomas joined opinions stating that “Roe was wrongly decided… it can and should be overruled”17 and described the Court’s decision in Roe as “grievously wrong.”18
������ Robert Bork, nominated to be associate justice.19 During his confirmation hearings, Bork stated, “There is a need for stability and continuity in the law. There is a need for predictability in legal doctrine. And it is important that the law not be considered as shifting every time the personnel of the Supreme Court changes.”20 However, years later, when asked how America would be different had he been confirmed, Bork responded, “Well, America would be different in the sense that Roe against Wade would have been overruled.”21
Ensuring Access to Abortion Services
������ Repeatedly voted to deny low income women access to abortion care except in cases of rape, incest, or life endangerment, 34 even voting once to prohibit federal Medicaid funds for abortion services in any case.35
������ Voted to permit federally funded Title X family planning clinics to decline to counsel women on abortion services.36
������ Voted to deny all federal health grants to any health center that provides abortion care with other funds, a move that would defund family planning clinics nationwide.37
������ Voted against lifting the ban that forbids U.S. servicewomen from obtaining abortion services at overseas military hospitals with their own funds.38
������ Voted against lifting the ban that forbids federal employees from choosing health insurance that includes abortion coverage.39
������ Repeatedly voted to prohibit the District of Columbia from using federal funds or its own locally raised revenues to provide abrtion services for low income women.40
������ Voted to require Title X family planning clinics to notify a teen’s parent before providing abortion services.41
������ Voted in favor of a law that would have jeopardized young women’s health and safety by making it a federal crime for anyone othr than a parent – including a grandparent, adult sibling, or religious counselor – to accompany a young woman across state lines for abortion care if the home state parental involvement mandate has not been met.42
������ Voted for a proposal that would have endangered young women’s health and safety by imposing a new, impossibly complex national patchwork of parental notification mandates on doctors and young women.43
I learned in a hurry.
. I am saying a prayer for the repose of her soul. 
What a shame, the day before the election at that.
Me too! I also asked her intercession for the election to turn out Pro-Life and for her misguided grandson to be kept out of the presidency where he could do so much harm in signing FOCA into law. How that despicable piece of legislature could ever “reduce abortions” is not reconcilable with logic.
