Obama’s Abortion Flub Unites Catholic Opposition

 

Published: February 12, 2012

President Obama’s policy fumbles over imposing a birth control mandate on religious  insurance providers has done something few policies and politicians have ever been able to do: unite the normally politically-divided Catholic population.

Obama, who won 54 percent of the Catholic vote in 2008 despite his strong support for abortion, has seen that backing shrink dramatically. Now only 39 percent of Catholic vot...


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