Earlier this month, I noted the death of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, a Catholic scholar known (among many other things) for her defense of unborn human beings. Yesterday, another prominent Catholic passed on, one known for taking the other side on the central human rights issue of our time (though he styled himself a champion of human rights).
Elsewhere on CE is a link to James Hitchcock's fine review of Drinan's "strange political career." Here is the AP/New York Times' obituary. Most readers of CE no doubt already consider the idea of objectivity at the the AP and NYT risible–if they consider it at all–but I can't resist highlighting the story's preposterous characterization of Drinan's position on abortion as "moderate." He supported President Clinton's veto of the partial-birth abortion ban. One wonders, if that be the moderate stance, then what is the extreme?
