Abortion is Taking It's Toll on the Democratic Party

Here's an interesting commentary by Francis X. Maier, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Denver, in today's Rocky Mountain News regarding the devastating effect abortion is having on the Democratic Party. Here's a short excerpt - be sure to read the whole thing:

In the years since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion on demand, my wife and I have struggled many times with the choice of voting Democratic. Our youngest son has Down syndrome, and Democratic policies often benefit the disabled in ways Republican policies don't.

But it's also true that children like our son are becoming extinct in part because the abortion lobby has a stranglehold on the Democratic Party platform, with all that it implies for legislation and judicial appointments. The easiest response to handicapped children is to kill them before they arrive. That's not a solution. That's homicide.

We can't build a just society while killing a million unborn children a year. No matter how much good we try to do, we can't outrun the effects of that most intimate form of violence against women and children.