Douglas Kmiec has this account of a conversation he and a number of others had with Barack Obama:"Not to understand that there is more than one rather indirect and elusive judicial way to address an intrinsic evil understates the ingenuity of the devout. Describing the abortion decision as a 'difficult, deeply moral one,' Obama sees it as one only the woman can make. Unless her choice affirms life that is not my Catholic view, and I told him so. But disagreement or not, it is abundantly clear from our conversation that Obama shares a common aspiration to reduce the incidence of abortion."http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0616kmiec_jun16,0,759034.story

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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