I absolutely agree. Why is it that men like Randall Terry do nothing to ease the very real suffering of children who are already here? As one of my favorite quotes says "I am not for abortion. No one is "for" abortion. I am for the rights of women to make their own hard choices in the world." The thing that sickens me the most about the "anti-abortion" movement is that none of them seem to give a damn about feeding, sheltering or educating the children we already have. They claim they support life, but the only life they truly care about is their own, and feeding their own egos.

"Obama is not likely to mention any of this at Notre Dame. The man is smooth and disciplined. He will, I am sure, extol the Catholic social justice tradition and urge the graduates to commit to serving the poor."

The Catholic church has always made a business out of raping the poor and their stand on abortion is about as far away from social justice as you can get.If Catholic church is so concerned about the poor perhaps they could sell that block and lot number on 5th Ave and 50th st and give it away in the name of social justice.What is so great about smooth and disciplined anyway?All it does is sanction these various religious institutions to continue to rape and pillage.

Most of all, beware of Barack Obama with or without a teleprompter. The road to hell is paved with Barack Obamas.

Yahoos out there believe all this nonsense, especially the nonsense that this Terry bozo, Alan Keyes and the Catholic Church are right.

The sexual revolution is over, and sex lost. Oh, it mumbles and complains on, the same way that Southerners grumble over the Civil War and the natural superiority of the South, and how the War for the Confederacy wasn't really about racism and the like. (The same thing is said among the Sex Losers about how prostitution doesn't destroy women and demean men - an argument made by feminists, of all people.) But nobody believes what anybody says about sex.

So, take joy in every child that's born, whether in or out of wedlock. Of course, once the little bastard is out of the uterus, let him or her die of neglect, starvation or drug abuse, because it just costs too much to care about them after birth. Accept the miracle of birth and forget about what happens afterward.

I think the tide is pro-life, not pro-death.

No one is "pro-death."

Notre Dame is to be congratulated on their decision to invite President Obama to speak. But it is really sad that this is even an issue. Abortion is an awful thing and every woman who has to decide whether to abort or not deserves our sympathy. But there are worse things than abortion. For example children abused by parents who resent them and children who are abused by homophobic priests. It is interesting that President Obama wants to help mothers who decide to carry their child to term. Too many of the anti-abortion brigades will do nothing to help these women. One could suspect that some see unwanted pregnancies as "just punishment for fornication." People who vote for a candidate solely because of his stand on abortion are ignorant.

The Catholic church needs to stay out of dictating my nation's policies and law. I frankly wish that Obama would just skip Notre Dame and speak somewhere else.

The Catholic Church needs to deal with it's own problems: crimes and criminals. These include pedophile priests, the worst traitor in the history of the C.I.A., liars, cheats, murderers embezzlers, and abusive situations in their own schools and orphanages.

Frankly, it seems to be much ado about a handful of fanatics who want to draw attention away from their own malfeasance and covering up. What arrogance.

That's all abortion is. A barometer of what other people must conclude about you. It's fundamentally unfixable and that's that.

The question here is why anyone is listening to Randall Terry and his ilk; why it is that a small contingent of emotionally and psychologically disturbed, deeply creepy middle-aged white men (this includes most of the GOP and Congress) are arrogantly assuming they, and they alone, have the right to decide the reproductive rights for millions of women. Perhaps Terry and his self-righteous flock might take it upon themselves to look beyond their dogma and use their energy more productively, like offering help and money to the millions of unwanted and orphaned children that actually are alive and in need. Yet, that has always been the case with Terry and those like him; fight to the end to save the "unborn" children, yet when those same children are born to poor, unwed mothers they are apparently deserving of nothing but contempt, and the social programs designed to help them viewed as a "waste of tax dollars."

but not the president of the united states!

screw these guys... what a joke.

They are not pro-life....they are anti-choice.

If they are pro-life, where were/are their protests of the killing of young men and women in Bush's unnecessary war? They don't care about "life" once it's out of the womb. They only want to take away the choice from women.

If they are so pro-life, where is the effort to help unwanted children who may be born into poverty or abusive situations?

Pro-life? I think not. Anti-choice--yes, they are.

.. to the early 90s in Los Angeles, when we would get a call at 1-3 a.m. from Clinic Defense to head for a Planned Parenthood or abortion clinic that was to be Operation Rescue's target for the day. The Clinic Defense organizers infiltrated OR and passed along the information. We would get to the clinic before OR and physically prevent them from closing the doors. We covered L.A., Orange County, even Riverside. We finally shut OR down in So. Cal.; I think they went to Kansas then. My admiration for the Clinic Defense organizers is boundless.