Ambassador Douglas Kmiec—the Catholic law professor who parlayed his campaign book in support of Obama into an ambassadorship to Malta—has signed a statement of “Christian Leaders” in support of the abortion provisions in the Senate’s health-care bill.
Of this, Ed Whelan writes , “One very experienced former U.S. ambassador tells me that he ‘doesn’t know of any political or career ambassador who has ever signed a statement like Kmiec’s.’”
Even shipping the man off to Malta won’t keep him quiet. And why is it that Kmiec—so widely self-proclaimed as “pro-life”—always somehow has his pro-life declarations break in the opposite direction of the majority of other pro-lifers? It’s like the old line about French waiters: Sure, they make a lot of errors in the arithmetic of the bills they put on the table, but the errors always run in their favor.
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