I was sure that the Supreme Court's partial-birth abortion descision would generate a lot of misguided, silly, and irrational commentary on Catholics, abortion, and government. I've been pleasantly surprised not to have come across any (not to say that it's not out there).
The exception is this cartoon from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Robert T. Miller at FirstThings.com provides a compelling response, thereby giving the cartoon more thoughtful consideration than it deserves.
Kevin Schmiesing is a research fellow at the Acton Institute. He is the author of American Catholic Intellectuals, 1895-1955 (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002) and, most recently, of Within the Market Strife: American Catholic Economic Thought from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II (Lexington Books, 2004). He is the book review editor for The Journal of Markets & Morality and is also executive director of CatholicHistory.net. Schmiesing earned his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Pennsylvania.
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