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"I oppose abortion, personally," says John Kerry.(Brief Article)

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* "I oppose abortion, personally," says John Kerry. "I don't like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception. But I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an atheist ... who doesn't share it. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America." If Kerry believes that abortion kills a human being--and it is reasonable to infer from his comment about conception that he does believe that proposition--then it is awfully tepid of him to say that he does not "like" it. But then, it is also odd that he shrinks from prohibiting it. It takes a moment's reflection to see that opposition to abortion is not an "article of faith" in the way that the Virgin Birth is. Non-Catholics, indeed atheists, ...

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